Three days of a well-attended new initiative by Chelsea drew to a close on Bank Holiday Monday with a new young player selected for trials and more praise for the event.

Search for an Asian Soccer Star is a ground-breaking attempt to unearth potential professional footballers from a so far under-represented community at the top level of the sport.

A change is already beginning according to Jas Jassal, who brought seven youngsters he works with to Cobham over the weekend, including his own son Amandeep for today's Under 14s day.

Jassal is much-involved in running Concorde FC Juniors, providing grassroots football for Asian kids in west London.

'Ten years ago when I was playing I couldn't see an Asian football star coming through, but now in the next 10 years I can,' he said.

'Chelsea is the first big club to promote grassroots football among the Asian community and to look for a superstar and you'll find if one superstar comes out it, the whole Asian community will support him, not just in this country but in India as well.

'It is important to find that talent and nurture it because it needs mental attributes as well as physical ones. This has been a great three days for boys and for us to network.'

Once more the day was interrupted when members of the Chelsea first team squad took time out from working on their skills to lend support.

Petr Cech greeted the crowd before saying: 'You can see the smiles on the faces and they deserve to have their chance to show people what they can do, spending time here showing their skills and talent.

'It may only be a few kids that will get a trial, but this experience will give the other ones enough to join other clubs or get another dimension to their football. They may have played outside with friends but never had the structure for proper skill training. Now they may try for more of that.

'It is slow in England the people from the Asian community coming through as players. They have talent and passion about sport and it is good for there to be an opportunity in football.'

'They are living a dream to become professional footballers,' decided Nicolas Anelka as he looked on. 'To play at the Chelsea training ground and to enjoy it is a good feeling.

'Football is international and we should see it everywhere. Chelsea had a good idea and hopefully one day someone here today will become a professional footballer for Chelsea and maybe for England.'

The timetable for the day was the same as Saturday and Sunday - a series of individual tests that have been developed over time by the Chelsea Academy to evaluate core skill levels essential for a young player at an elite club.

These allow trialists to be measured against boys already in the Academy. They were followed by coaching sessions with Academy staff and in the afternoon, some proper games.

Highest scorer in the skills tests was Tarun Nijjer with approximately 91 per cent of the maximum mark. However judged the overall winner of the day was Jhai Singh Dhillon (pictured below) from Hitchen, Hertfordshire, who proved the openness of the contest by succeeding despite wearing a Barcelona kit!

He had bought it at the Camp Nou as a football tourist he explained and said: 'I am over the moon and I didn't expect to win at the beginning because there were so many people. The tests were challenging but I felt I had done pretty well in them.

'I'd tell anyone who is thinking about taking part to try it even if you don't think you are the best player. It is good fun.'

'He had two games yesterday for Hitchin Town,' revealed Jhai's father, 'and he said I want to go to the park after. I said no, rest, and he was up at 5 o'clock this morning!'

Just as exhausted at end was Chelsea Academy project manager Darren Grace who had overseen the event.

'Generally it was a real success,' he reported. 'We had in excess of 300 players across the three ages from places as far away as America and Glasgow and the standard was about what we expected, some good players, some not so good, but generally everyone enjoyed it which was the main thing.'

The winner from each age category will now take part in a three-day trial this summer with the Academy side of his age. Other players who caught the eye are likely to be invited to have involvement with Chelsea at some level.