RECIFE Brazil (Reuters) - A YouTube video showing a young slip of a lad scything through the heart of defences with devastating pace and the balance of a tightrope walker had Liverpool fans tapping at their keyboards in a flurry of excitement.
That player was a 15-year-old Raheem Sterling, just signed by Liverpool's then manager Rafa Benitez and showing dribbling ability not unlike the club's former England great John Barnes.
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