'I played with Raheem Sterling at Liverpool – I changed careers and now I'm an artist'

David Moli was erstwhile a large imaginable successful the Liverpool academy, playing with immoderate of the club's biggest players, until helium hung up his boots astatine conscionable 24

Former Liverpool youth subordinate David Moli has traded his shot boots for paintbrushes and go an artist.

At the property of 24, Moli decided to telephone clip connected his career, contempt having started beingness connected the transportation alongside Raheem Sterling successful Liverpool's academy. While Sterling made it to Liverpool 's archetypal squad successful 2012, Moli moved to Wolves, ditching 2 years connected his Reds contract- a determination helium would aboriginal regret.

During his clip at Molineux, the centre guardant suffered a terrible wounded that divided a musculus betwixt his tibia and fibula, sidelining him for 8 months. After recovering, Moli joined Hayes and Yeading successful non-league but was deed again erstwhile the wounded resurfaced.

He past had stints astatine clubs similar Epinal successful France, Stormil Olszytn successful Poland and Estonia's Parnu Vaprus. However, portion astatine Parnu Vaprus, Moli tore his ACL during training, adding to his wounded woes.

These recurring injuries yet led to his aboriginal status astatine a clip erstwhile galore players are hitting their stride. The football-shaped spread successful Moli's beingness didn't enactment bare for agelong however, arsenic helium swiftly made a sanction for himself successful the creation world, arsenic per the Liverpool Echo.

Speaking to The Times backmost successful 2019, helium said: "I've ever had an quality to enactment thing originative connected paper. When I was recovering from injury, it helped flooded depression. When you're unsocial successful your room, each you request is simply a canvas."

Since then, Moli's creator travel has flourished spectacularly. His creations aren't conscionable fetching thousands but are besides becoming the must-have decor for football's elite, and In a candid chat with The Athletic successful 2020, Moli revealed the identites of immoderate of his star-studded clientele.

"Quite a fewer footballers person bought stuff," helium said." I've conscionable done 1 for Jesse Lingard. Fred's woman messaged maine and commissioned maine to bash a portion for him for their anniversary. Luke Shaw's missus ordered a portion for his birthday. She was amazed erstwhile I showed her a representation of Luke and I playing for England Under-16s together."

"Trent (Alexander-Arnold) has got 3 pieces. One was commissioned by a covering marque and past helium messaged maine to say, 'Thanks precise much, tin I person different 2 please?' So I ended up doing 1 of Biggie (Smalls) and 1 of The Joker for him. (Watford's) Andre Gray and (former Cardiff City winger) Nathaniel Mendez-Laing person bought worldly too."

Sterling, connected the different hand, who shared a four-bedroom semi-detached location successful St Helens with Moli during their Liverpool days, has thrived connected the transportation for some the Reds, Manchester City and present Arsenal. After his £49million determination to the Etihad, Sterling scored 91 goals successful 225 appearances for the Sky Blues earlier making a power to Chelsea successful 2022. He past moved to Arsenal this summertime connected loan.

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