article_snippet.sent: Back then, Raheem Sterling was a young kid dreaming of a career in professional football, playing jumpers for goalposts on streets and in parks.
article_snippet.sent: Raheem Sterling pictured in Liverpool training on Thursday at their Melwood headquarters .
article_snippet.sent: Sterling and Daniel Sturridge share a joke in Liverpool training on Thursday at Sterling and Daniel Sturridge Melwood base .
article_snippet.sent: The forward trains with Raheem Sterling team-mates as Sterling and Daniel Sturridge prepare to take on Arsenal on Saturday .
article_snippet.sent: It has been quite a remarkable rise for Raheem Sterling since the player days looking up at Wembley with hope in the player heart and a ball under the player arm; rapidly progressing along the ground and through the ranks.
article_snippet.sent: Sterling arrives at Liverpool's Melwood training ground on Thursday morning .
article_snippet.sent: Sterling had Sterling football and Sterling mother, a source of inspiration and guidance.
article_snippet.sent: A decade ago Sterling began to take Sterling sport seriously.
article_snippet.sent: Mark Anderson and Frank McParland, Liverpool’s youth scout and academy director respectively, spotted Sterling star in these games and began Mark Anderson and Frank McParland, Liverpool’s youth scout and academy director respectively pursuit.
article_snippet.sent: At this time Sterling was taken under the wing of Tom Walley, a veteran youth coach who has worked with Ashley Cole and David James.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Calvin details in Michael Calvin book, The Nowhere Men, how Sterling would take part in pick-up games organised by Walley on a pitch in the back garden of the home of Tim Sherwood, then Tottenham’s technical co-ordinator.
article_snippet.sent: Raheem Sterling is most recently of Dover Athletic, a tale of just how tough it is to make the kind of ascent Raheem Sterling has managed.
article_snippet.sent: Sterling scored a brilliant solo goal during Liverpool's 1-1 Capital One Cup semi-final draw with Chelsea .