Australia’s Under-16 national team will converge in Canberra this week in preparation for two-major international tournaments later this year.

The nation’s top young talent will spend three days at the Australian Institute of Sport under the tutelage of Joey’s Coach Tony Vidmar and Technical Director Peter de Roo.

Thursday's training camp will be the first of a monthly program designed specifically for players born in the year 2000, with 28 young faces from around the country taking part.

Coaches will be focusing on developing the technical ability of Australia's next crop of football stars with an eye the AFF U16 Youth Championships being staged in Indonesia in July, and the AFC U16 Championships 2016 Qualifiers in September.

2015 U16 Camps (Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra)

February: 19th-21st

April 9th-11th

April: 20th-22nd

May: 21st-23rd

June: 25th-27th

2015 U16 Tournaments

25th July – 7th August - AFF U16 Youth Championships, Indonesia

12th – 20th September AFC U16 Championship 2016 Qualifiers, location TBC

Coaching staff for this group will be as per the U17 Joeys:

Peter de Roo (Technical Director)

Tony Vidmar (Head Coach)

Ufuk Talay (Assistant Coach)

Fernando vaz Alves (Goalkeeper Coach)

February 19-21 Camp Attendees:

Wilfred Armand FQ

Zachary Bates FFV

Jacob Botic FNSW

Zachary Duncan FNSW

Jesse Gibbs FQ

Samuel Hamilton FNSW

Joshua Kelic FFV

Brandon Lauton FFV

Leo Mazis CF

Mersim Memeti FFV

Mirza Muratovic FNSW

Ramy Najjarine FNSW

Yianni Nicolaou FNSW

Alex Parsons FQ

Yerasimakis Petratos FNSW

Michael Piccolo CF

Dylan Pierias FFV

Nathan Prince FFV

Leus Romeo CF

Lachlan Sayers FQ

Patrick Scibilio NSW

Jerry Skotadis FNSW

Noah Smith FFSA

Nicholas Suman FNSW

Ahmed Sweedan FNSW

Lachlan Watson NNSWF

Tony Yang FNSW

Jacob Young FW