Kazaiah Sterling was a centre-forward who was clinical in front of goal, during his time in the Spurs Academy set-up. Formerly of the Leyton Orient Academy set-up, Kazaiah would rise up through the Spurs Academy ranks during his time at the club, and he would sign scholarship forms with the club for the 2015/16 season. He would go on to have a good goalscoring record at both Under 18 and Under 21 level for Spurs. Calm and composed in front of goal, I was always impressed whenever I would turn up to Spurs Academy games and watch the pre-match training/warmup, where Kazaiah often always seemed to score with pretty much all of his efforts on goal in the pre-match training routine around the penalty area. The player who would feature on two occasions for the Spurs first team in competitive matches, did have quite a lot of injuries while he was with Spurs full-time. However, if you look back at his goal record for Spurs at both Under 18 and Under 21 level, it is impressive. A hardworking centre-forward with good movement off the ball, Kazaiah had some really good games for Spurs at Academy level, and he had a good variety to his finishes. He was also unlucky on several of his loan moves away from the club, because of injuries.

Kazaiah went on several loan moves away from Spurs, to clubs such as Sunderland, Doncaster Rovers and Greenock Morton. He didn’t however, play a lot of games for either of these sides. He would leave Spurs at the end of the 2020/21 contract, after Kazaiah’s contract was not renewed. Kazaiah would join non-League side Potters Bar Town for a short time, but he missed quite a lot of games for them because of injury. However, in 2022 the former England youth international joined American USL League One side South Georgia Tormenta FC. And since joining them Kazaiah has scored a really good amount of goals. In fact he has scored 21 goals from 36 competitive appearances for South Georgia Tormenta FC, as well as providing a decent amount of assists from those games. And the 24 year old has scored three goals in his last six USL League One appearances. Last season (2022), Kazaiah helped South Georgia Tormenta to make the play-offs of the USL League One, from which they won the championship. It is really good to see Kazaiah playing consistently and doing well, after all of his injury problems. I wish him all the very best for the remainder of the current USL League One season.