When David Raya steps out onto the pitch for Saturday’s Champions League Final, he’ll achieve this to the soundtrack of almost 70,000 boisterous spectators. It’ll be a far cry from the bumpy pitches and concrete terracing of England’s non-league the goalkeeper as soon as graced. Twelve years in the past, he was a Spanish teenager on a character-building mortgage spell with then fifth-tier Southport FC. Fast ahead to right this moment, he’s one in all the most influential keepers of his era and stands on the brink of historical past as Arsenal chases a primary ever Champions League crown. He’s been reflecting on his exceptional rise by means of the English soccer pyramid to the greatest stage in the membership sport with NCS’s Amanda Davies.