City teenagers Sagar Rathod (13) and Aditi Pandire (13) come from humble backgrounds, but their talent and passion for football have earned them a trip to train with an English club in London. Sagar and Aditi are among four teenagers who were shortlisted yesterday to train at London-based Queens Park Rangers Football Club's youth academy (for a 10-day period in October) as part of the South Mumbai Junior Soccer Challenge, an initiative by politician Milind Deora.

The other two are Yohan Poonawala (Bombay International, Babulnath) and Nishka Prakash (Edubridge International, Grant Road). Sagar, a Class VIII student of Colaba Municipal School, has had to undergo a lot of hardship to pursue his football dream. The striker is a resident of the Ambedkar Nagar slums in Colaba and his father Gopal is a construction site worker.