The Study Support Centre at Southend United was recently lucky enough to receive a visit from Billy Wingrove - one of the best freestyle footballers in the country.

If you don't know who he is, then you are still probably familiar with his work.

As well as appearing at events such as the World Cup finals in Germany, Billy spends much of his time working for some of the big sports companies such as Nike and Adidas.

His main role is to act as chief choreographer on all those fantastic TV adverts featuring the likes of Ronaldinho and Cristiano Ronaldo.

His feet also appear in a number of the ads when he doubles for the players on some of the more difficult tricks and skills.

Billy visited Roots Hall as part of the 3 Lions FC Saturday Club, which Southend have been running for six consecutive Saturday mornings.

It is a follow-up to the hugely successful 3 Lions FC Summer School. The summer school is held each year in conjunction with the Essex County FA and aims to offer a week of fun sports-related activities both at Southend United and in Priory Park.

Billy visited Roots Hall as part of Sport England's 'Sporting Champions' initiative, which aims to provide a range of sporting role models to school aged pupils.

As well as showing the children his 'mind-blowing' skills routine, Billy spent over an hour with the pupils in Priory Park taking a coaching session and teaching them a few of his skills.

Further details of the centre and their range of programmes can be found at: www.extratimesufc.org.uk.