Do you know New Brunswick soccer player ?

A 13-year-old soccer player from New Brunswick is heading to Montreal for an experience of a lifetime after being selected to join the Montreal Impact Academy — the first ever to be selected from the province to join the Impact.

Phoenix Roberts, a keeper from Moncton, was selected after being invited to a tryout for the academy while its scouting team went to the Atlantic Soccer Championships in July.

Roberts said he had tryouts for five days and dressed up for the team to train with them. He said it was intense training and what made it a challenge was more about the technical skills needed, but he eventually got selected which is exciting

“First in history to go and get scouted from New Brunswick to Montreal, that’s pretty exciting,” he said.

“I can learn a lot of new things, I can get better because they’re a high-performance team, more strict coaches … and eventually they’ll coach me so good I could probably be in the pros.”

His goal is something that could be obtainable by attending the academy, as approximately 10 to 15 per cent of the trained players within the club go on to sign with the professionals.

Roberts’ father Aaron told Global News they’re “ultimately super-ecstatic for him.”

Because of moving soccer school,Roberts and his family make their way to Montreal to begin his time at the Academy Sunday and he will begin school Aug. 30.