It's Saturday afternoon and a Portuguese central midfielder named Fernandes is wearing the captain's armband.
His players are in a huddle in the dressing room, listening to his final words of advice.
It's Ricardo Fernandes, not his younger brother and Manchester United superstar Bruno Fernandes who is leading out his team Roffey FC against Pagham in front of a record crowd of 509 fans in the ninth tier of the English football pyramid.
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"Me and my brother played together most of the time in our neighbourhood." Ricardo says. "I am five years older than him and he always loved to join in and play with me. I was always worried because of the bigger lads tackling him and I always tried to protect him.
"But that's how he became a better player I guess.
"To see my brother in the Premier League, which is the best league in the world, is unbelievable," Ricardo says. "There's no words for that. I talk with my brother more or less every day. We're a very close family. A football family!"
This Saturday is the latest Non-League Day, which began in 2010 and is an annual celebration of the football pyramid. It encourages as many fans as possible to support their local non-league side on a weekend of international football when there is no Premier League or Championship action.
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And to mark this year's event, the Premier League Trophy travelled to Bartholomew Way, Roffey FC's picturesque home.
Located in woodland on the outskirts of Horsham in West Sussex, it is no surprise that the ground is fondly known as the Theatre of Trees.
"Having the Premier League here is so important," adds Ricardo, who is in his third season with the club. "Not just for Roffey or for this game, but for the non-league. It's a massive impact in terms of funding helping to build stands, floodlights or whatever the clubs need.
"Roffey is about community, making everyone comfortable, making everyone as a family. Everything around this club is amazing. It's so important to get these clubs going because this is the story of football."
In 2020, The Boars received more than £50,000 from the Premier League Stadium Fund for a new stand and floodlight system. Further Premier League funding has been approved for LED floodlights.
"It's a very special place," says Roffey FC chairman Philip Gibbs. "We've got a beautiful environment and people who come to our club really do enjoy it, it's a bit different, it's a bit quirky. I love the fact that people are looked after when they come here, everyone is welcomed.
"It's massively important to differentiate ourselves by being a community-driven club. We have to go the extra mile to make this a very safe and comfortable place for people to come to. There's a great momentum here because of these people coming together and the chemistry of those people is fantastic.
"The support from the Premier League has been absolutely essential to turn this place into a proper football venue and has allowed us the chance to really grow. It's absolutely vital that those levels of support carry on for clubs like us."
Roffey are currently sixth in the league and are in the hunt for a play-off place as they aim to earn back-to-back promotions.
There are only six matches of the league season left to play and Roffey will be hoping to have plenty of support this Non-League Day when they welcome Lingfield to Bartholomew Way for a 15:00 kick-off
"Premier League investment is massive for us," says first-team manager Jack Munday. "I was playing here in 2016 and the stand and the floodlights weren't here. It costs a lot of money to make your ground worthy of this level of football.
"We have 100 hundred seats now with our new stand and it's really important that people are able to sit down and be covered in the bad weather. It all helps with the spectator experience and trying to get more people through the door to come and watch."
Through the Premier League Stadium Fund, which is delivered by the Football Foundation, more than £207m has been invested into improving the stadiums and facilities of clubs in the EFL, National League System and Women's Football Pyramid since 2000.
Over 5,900 grants have been provided to more than 1,000 clubs across more than 100 leagues.
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