“I honestly can’t really remember,” 20 year old Lucas Bergstrom revealed when asked about his journey to being a Chelsea goalkeeper.

“I began playing football quite young, the summer before I turned five, and at some point I was just in goal,” Bergstrom added. “I was tall, so I think that meant I was always the goalkeeper.”

Bergstrom played against Wrexham and Fulham during pre-season for the Blues.

“Chelsea scouted me for the first time when I was 13,” recalls Bergstrom. “They followed my progress from that point. A lot of things happened – I had trials at different clubs – but Chelsea always kept that interest.

“I played a couple of national team games at around 15 years old and I had other teams in England interested, but my heart was always for Chelsea because they were first.

“I knew a lot of people, and some players, so when the time came to make a decision it was an easy decision to sign the contract. It was a long process but I am very happy with the choice I made.”

“When I was around 10 or 11 years old, I wasn’t really enjoying it as much,” Bergstrom said about being a goalkeeper. “So there was a period when I was playing for my local team out on pitch and for my club at the time, TPS, in goal.

“So I played both and I did love playing on the pitch – you get to score goals! But when I reached 14 though, I was only playing for TPS. From that point, I was always in goal.

“But playing out on the pitch was important; it allowed me to develop with my feet but also understand the game from a different perspective and different positions on the pitch. It helped a lot.”