Raheem Sterling
English association football player (born 1994)
Raheem Shaquille Sterling (born 8 December 1994) is a professional footballer who plays as a winger. He is currently a free agent. Born in Jamaica, he has played for the England national team.
Sterling began his career at Queens Park Rangers, before signing for Liverpool in 2010. He was awarded the Golden Boy award in 2014. In July 2015, following a lengthy dispute over a new contract, he was signed by Manchester City in a transfer worth £49 million with add-ons, the highest transfer fee paid for an English player at the time. He went on to help City win consecutive Premier League titles in the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons. In the 2018–19 season, he was included in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year and won the PFA Young Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year. He won two further Premier League titles with the club in 2020–21 and 2021–22, before signing for Chelsea in July 2022. Sterling is currently the all-time English top assist provider in the UEFA Champions League, with 23.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q312157. VIAF identifies the subject as 8884150172735200180000. The Library of Congress control number is no2017098439. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994, 2010, 2014 and 2015.
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