This team of soccer stars have bowed out of junior football in style.
The boys, who all play for Rayleigh Boys Under-16 team, went to Rochford's twin town of Haltern in Germany to play in a tournament against German teams.
They played well and won the tournament after drawing with TuS Haltern and beating both SV Bossendorf and ETus.
The current squad will no longer be able to play at junior level because they are too old, but a spokesman for the team said it was good to go out on a high.
Rayleigh Boys is looking to organise more tournaments in Haltern and hope its hosts will soon come to Rayleigh in return.
The squad are pictured with coach Dave Law (left) and manager Pat Crowley (right).
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