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The 14-year-old international goalie with eyes on the Premier League

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Sammy Harvey has made his first appearance for his country aged 14

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Sammy Harvey is a goalkeeper with big ambitions.

The 14-year-old recently played his first ever international football match for the Turks and Caicos Islands.

The teenage goalie started in their Concacaf Nations League match against Anguilla - whose starting goalkeeper was 41!

But this is just the start for Harvey - he's dreaming of a future in the Premier League.

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Turks and Caicos Islands manager Aaron Lawrence also played in goal and says Sammy could get to the Premier League one day

Unfortunately for Harvey his first match ended in a 2-0 defeat.

"After the first game, I did cry, knowing that my first game was a loss," Harvey told Â鶹ԼÅÄ World Service Sport.

"[My coach] called me that same night to help me get my head back in it and get my head back up, and I was ready..."

Harvey says his footballing hero is his national team coach, Aaron Lawrence, who played in goal for Jamaica at the 1998 World Cup.

But he also admires Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson and Manchester City's Ederson.

A big Liverpool fan, his dream is to one day play for the Reds, and his manager feels he could.

"I think he has most of the qualities that a great goalkeeper has for the Premier League," said Aaron Lawrence.

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Liverpool's Alisson is one of Sammy's favourite goalkeepers

The teenager says it was his sister who first got him into football at the age of five, but at first he didn't play in goal.

"I started off as a left and right-back," he said. "But when coach Aaron joined the programme... he put me in a goal and worked on me, my first ever goalkeeper coach."

Amazingly Harvey isn't even the first 14- year-old to play for Turks and Caicos Islands - in fact he's the third, after Christopher Louisy and Watson Jean-Louis, who are both now 19.