Sterling, Arsenal attacker, hints at potential coaching role in the future

Sterling, now 29 years old, is currently on loan at Arsenal from Chelsea for the duration of the season.

"I don’t know about coaching yet,” he told arsenal.com, “but maybe something to do with working with young players, and trying to help them to handle what’s next and prepare them for that. I get real joy out of helping people.

"Being any sort of help to people on a football pitch gives me real joy, so it might not be coaching, but something along those lines, working with players, but not maybe as a traditional coach.

"More about helping the young players with different things, but I don’t know – it’s a way off yet. That’s something for the future.

“There is a qualification I want to do, not on the coaching side, but I will focus on playing first I think.”