Raheem Sterling's Life and Career Journey in Football "I like playing football."

Raheem Shaquile Sterling was born on December 8, 1994 in Kingston, Jamaica. He was born from the womb of a mother named Nadine Sterling. Sterling was born into a poor family. His mother only works as a makeup artist, while Sterling himself has three siblings.

He and his brother lived in a region that was known to be quite loud. Bad luck must also be received at the age of 2 years, at that time the father was killed by a group of attackers. After the death of his father, his brother, Lakima took him to hide a few months from the attackers.

Not only that, his mother left him and his sister, the mother went to England so that he could get his degree and provide a better life. While little Sterling lives in Jamaica with his grandmother.

Until the age of five, Sterling was finally taken by his mother to London. He then lived in a slum, his life there was very difficult for Sterling and his family, because they had to adapt to the new culture. There Sterling and his family also don't have much money. Even so small Sterling has shown interest and talent in football.

To support her children, the mother has to work as a janitor at a hotel in London. Not infrequently sterling often helps his mother to work, he then started his education at a school called Vernon House special school.

However, in the midst of difficulties in adapting to life in England, Sterling had to start dealing with life in school. He was expelled from elementary school. The school said that Sterling needed an environment that could give him more attention.

Sterling's life then began to change when he met someone named Clive Ellington. Clive is a mentor in the area where he lives for children who do not have a father. One time Clive went to Sterling and asked, "Raheem, what do you like so much to do right now?"

The answer that came out of a small Raheem Sterling at the time was, "I like playing football."

Hearing Sterling's answer, Clive immediately offered Sterling to come play with his club in the Sunday League. And this is where the change in Sterling's life began. His talent was immediately visible when he acted in the Sunday League even though he had to play with older children.

Sterling's ability to process the round skin makes it in the lyrics by several clubs including Arsenal, Fulham, and QPR. Of course he was very happy when he heard that Arsenal were interested in his abilities. However, the mother actually believes differently. According to the mother, rather than choosing Arsenal, Sterling would rather choose QPR as his first club.

Sterling finally followed his mother's will to play at QPR at the age of 10 years. His sister contributed greatly to Sterling's career, his sister often accompanied him while undergoing training with QPR. Every day Sterling departs to be escorted by his brother at 3 pm to finish training at 11 pm.

Sterling's hard work and sacrifice made by his family sweet fruit when Sterling was called to defend the England U-16 national team and scored two goals against Northern Ireland. Sterling then continued to strengthen the UK U-17.

At the age of 15 years, Liverpool came to offer Sterling. This time Sterling tried to convince his mother to give him permission to go to Liverpool and train there. Sterling finally left London for Merseyside with his mother, while at Liverpool sterling also continued his education at Rainhill St, Helens.

The struggle with the reds began, his career began to climb until in 2012 Sterling was promoted to the Liverpool first team. On March 24, Sterling made his senior debut at Liverpool as a substitute in the primary league match against Wigan Athletic, when he was 17 years and 107 days old.

Sterling's slick performance saw him called up by the senior English national team and made his debut on November 14, 2012 in a friendly against Sweden. Two years later he played at the 2014 World Cup.

In August 2012, Sterling made his European debut with Liverpool, he entered as a substitute in a European League qualifying match against Gomel. The following week, Sterling scored his first goal against Bayer Leverkusen.

2012/13 season Sterling was able to score 2 goals in 36 appearances in all competitions. Then in the following season, his performance has improved. On 8 February 2014, he scored two goals in a 5-1 win against Arsenal at Anfield. At the end of the season, he was named Liverpool's Best Young Player after scoring 10 goals.

Sterling made his debut in the UEFA Champions League when facing Bulgarian champions Ludogorets Razgrad at Anfield on 16 September 2014. Two months later he made his 100th appearance for Liverpool in a match against Manchester United at Old Trafford. In that season he scored 11 goals in 52 matches in all competitions, he was also crowned again as Liverpool's best young player.

His brilliant performances with the Reds were able to attract Manchester City's interest, until in July 2015 Sterling officially signed a five-year contract with a transfer fee of 44 million pounds or around Rp770 billion. Together with The Citizen, sterling made its debut on 10 August in a match against West Bromwich Albion.

Nineteen days later, he scored his first competitive goal for City against Watford at Ettihad. In his first season, Sterling appeared promising, he made 11 goals in 47 matches and helped the club win the league trophy.

In the following seasons, his appearance with Manchester City increased in terms of both the number of goals and assists.

Until the end of the 2018/19 season, with The Citizen, Sterling had collected two English league trophies, 1 FA trophy, two league trophies, and one community shield title. In the 2018/19 season he was also named the best young player of the English league.

While in his personal life, Sterling has had two children from the results associated with Paige Millian since I was in QPR, his first child was born in 2012, while the second child was born when Sterling played in Manchester city.

The player who has that speed was also involved in a legal case in 2013 when he was accused of assaulting his girlfriend. But the accusation was not proven in court.

On the international scene, Sterling has played 51 times and scored 8 goals with the English national team. His first senior goal for England occurred in the 2016 European Cup qualifier against Lithuania at Wembley Stadium in 2015. Then Sterling also played in the 2016 European Cup and the 2018 World Cup.

Now, speed, acceleration, drible is still very much needed by Man City and the England national team to achieve the highest achievements.