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Since the start of the Premier Development League season, Tommy Wheeldon Jr. has described his team’s journey as a ‘Cinderella story.’

If we’re casting Foothills FC in the Cinderella role, then with the way things are going, she’s collected an awful lot of glass slippers. Her closet must be bursting, really.

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On Saturday, the Calgary squad picked up their latest in a long line of treasured victories, beating the Ocean City Nor’easters 3-0 and booking a place in the PDL final.

The win had Wheeldon, the team’s English head coach, asking one question.

“If we win (the championship) are we allowed — like any other American sport — to call ourselves the world champions?” Wheeldon said, before letting out the laugh of a man whose team has surpassed all expectations. “The under-23 world champion. That’s what I might announce and then do a mic drop.”

If Wheeldon is feeling good about himself and his team, few can blame him.