Colts keen to play on

THEY have racked up more than 750 senior matches between them, but Colts United teammates Jamie Brown and Phil Berry are keen to keep kicking on.Brown recently played his 450th match in the Football Federation Victoria central region championship.A week later and Berry lined up for his 300th game.There have been thousands of training sessions and contests, and millions of striking the ball..Brown first played for United as a seven-year-old in 1977, and the striker-midfielder marked his senior debut in the ’84 season.“I love the game,’’ Brown said of competing.Because it’s an amateur competition, there’s no incentive of match payments to keep going.These days he and wife Monica are kept busy watching son Joshua, 9, play for Colts, and youngest son, four-year-old Jordan, is keen to play soon.Berry, 28, first played for Colts in ’88 and marked his senior debut a decade later.He and Brown played key roles in the division one championship victory in ’99.Midfield, left-back and goalkeeper are just some of the many roles Berry has played for United. He rated Bendigo’s country championship win in 2000 as a career high.The Berry family of John, Julie, Daniel, Rebecca and Travis have played or play on-field roles with Colts or referee matches.