YEOVIL NEWS: Good luck to goalkeeper Giles in Rio at the Paralympics

SOMERSET lad Giles Moore will be hoping to keep Team GB in safe hands when he represents the nation at the forthcoming Paralympics in Brazil.

Goalkeeper Giles, 19, who lives at Horton near Ilminster, has been selected for Team GB’s seven-a-side football team which will be hoping to win gold in Rio during the Paralympics which are to be staged from September 7-18, 2016.

Giles will link up with his team-mates next week before travelling to Brazil for what will be his first Paralympic Games.

But before that the Yeovil Town fan went along to the Glovers’ Huish Park stadium to meet up with manager Darren Way and the players ahead of their Sky Bet League Two match at Doncaster Rovers tomorrow (Saturday, August 27, 2016).

Giles also took part in the goalkeeper’s training session alongside Artur Krysiak, Jonny Maddison and goalkeeper coach Sam Shulberg before enjoying lunch with the team.

“Being able to meet everyone at the club was amazing because I’m a life time supporter who travels home and away to matches,” he said.

“It was fantastic to be able to train alongside the team, they presented me with a signed shirt with 'Rio 2016' on the back which I’m absolutely chuffed with. I’m going to frame it and hang it alongside my other shirts.

“It’s such a great club where everyone knows each other which creates a footballing family. I would like to thank everyone at Yeovil Town FC for a brilliant morning especially Darren, Terry Skiverton (assistant manager) and Sam for making me very welcome and wishing me best for Rio.”

Giles was named Best Goalkeeper at the 2014 CPISRA European Championships in Maia, Portugal, and will now aim to help Team GB improve on their seventh-place finish at London 2012.

PHOTOS - TOP AND RIGHT: Giles Moore in action. Pictures courtesy of the FA.

Giles, who went to Neroche Primary School at Broadway and Holyrood Academy in Chard, before further studies at Cannington College and Bridgwater College, said he and the Team GB squad had been training hard ahead of Rio at the Football Association’s state-of-the-art development centre St George’s Park at Burton-on-Trent.

He has also been training with Yeovil Town Ladies as he good friends with their goalkeeping coach Tony Rich. “He got me on to the right pathway and so I owe him a lot for what he has done for me,” said Giles.

But the Paralympics in Rio will not be the first time Giles has been to Brazil. He was part of the England Under-20 cerebral palsy football squad which won gold in the Brazil School Games in Sao Paulo  in 2013.

Giles said back in 2013: “We have our sights set on the Paralympics in Rio in 2016 – it would be amazing to represent my country at that kind of event.”

Three years on and Giles is about to see that aspiration become a reality.

PHOTO - ABOVE: Giles Moore (centre right) at Yeovil Town FC's Huish Park stadium along with manager Darren Way and members of the first-team squad.

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