Cobham boy, 7, completes football stadium challenge for uncle

Boy completes Premier League stadium tour challenge

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BBC Zac, from near Cobham, completed the 2,000-mile challenge in 12 months

A seven-year-old boy from Surrey has completed his challenge of visiting all 20 Premier League stadiums in honour of his uncle who died from a brain tumour. Zac, from near Cobham, completed the 2,000-mile (3,218km) challenge in 12 months in aid of Brain Tumour Research. He visited his final stadium on the tour, Chelsea's Stamford Bridge, on Monday. The boy and his family have so far raised more than £3,500 of their £10,000 target.

Speaking on BBC Radio Surrey, Zac said: " I feel very good and it's been super fun. Wolves' stadium [Molineux] was a favourite because they let us play on the pitch. "My friends think it's incredible." Zac's late uncle Stephen Realf, a trainee RAF pilot, died of a brain tumour aged 26 three years before Zac was born. Maria, Zac's mother, said other family members undertook challenges to commemorate the 10th anniversary of her brother's death. She said Zac was too young for the high-octane challenges, so instead came up with the stadium tour with his father.

Brain Tumour Research Zac's uncle, Stephen Realf, was a trainee RAF pilot when he died of a brain tumour aged 26

"It's taken 12 months and 2,000 miles but he finished it. It's been amazing and a really nice way to connect Zac with Stephen because they never got to meet," his mother siad. "I know they would have been the best of friends because they both love football and are daredevils so they would have loved one another, I'm sure." The family are planning two more challenges to complete by next week.

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