The Royals received a visit from American youth football club Charlotte United last weekend.

Our Community Trust has recently established an official partnership with the North Carolina club, who boast a membership of 1,300 players, and we were delighted to welcome Vic Johnson and Neil Orridge to Berkshire.

Vic and Neil spent four days looking at our facilities and our coaching methods, making trips to our Hogwood Park training ground as well as the Blackburn game.

Royals Community coach Ryan Williams will be visiting Charlotte later in the month to help run a youth football tournament which has more than 250 teams entered, and we will return to North Carolina later in the summer to help run a soccer camp.

Community Trust manager Lee Herron said, "We are very pleased to welcome Charlotte United as our latest international community partner.

"They are a progressive club who have a professional attitude and we are looking forward to developing a mutually fruitful relationship."

Clubs interested in working with the Royals should contact Lee on lherron@readingfc.co.uk / (+44) 118 968 1415.