SAINT Monica's RC High School are one step closer to a place in the ESFA Northern Schools Cup Final, at Middlesborough's Riverside Stadium.
The GM Schools Under 13 Champions beat Cheshire Schools runners-up, Rudheath High School, 4-1 after extra-time recently .
The Prestwich school will now face Cheshire Champions, William Beaumont High from Warrington in the next round at Prestwich Heys' Sandgate ground.
William Beaumont beat Merseyside champs Cardinal 3-1, also after extra-time in the last round.
The team's success has not gone unnoticed by league clubs.
Captain Declan O'Shea, Daniel Seacombe, Daniel Morgan and Billy Armstrong are already members of Bury FC's Centre of Excellence.
Teammates Bisike Anyanwu and Matthew Struminskyi are interesting Premiership side Blackburn Rovers.
While Manchester United's training staff regularly oversee the team's training sessions.
To become champions of Greater Manchester, St Monica's had to win the 'battle of Bury,' when they beat Ramsbottom's Woodhey High School, 2-1,
Should Saints win the ESFA Northern Schools Cup, they would then be on course for an even bigger date, the ESFA National Schools Cup Final, which will be played at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium.
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