10

Raheem Sterling

England

Position
Club
Age
Forward
Chelsea
28
Caps
Goals
Rating
Group16QFSFF
8
5
6

As a teenager Sterling spent five years living in Neeld Crescent, a long goal kick away from Wembley and could see the stadium from his bedroom window. By then his football talent was evident but it had not been an easy childhood for a Jamaican-born boy who arrived in London from Kingston at the age of five, three years after his father was murdered...