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He likes eating pizza and playing FIFA as he hangs out with his friends, just like most other 18-year-olds.

In a few years he’s got his eyes on possibly becoming a property developer.

But right now, Ben Woodburn just wants to play football.

This season we probably haven’t seen enough of the young Welshman who thrust himself on to the scene by becoming Liverpool’s youngest ever goalscorer against Leeds in November 2016 aged just 17 years and 45 days.

He hasn’t managed another since and while last season he clocked up four starts and five substitute appearances, this year has been confined to just one substitute appearance in Liverpool’s defeat at Leicester in the Carabao Cup.

His progress has instead been on the international stage where he burst on to the world stage with a winning goal for Wales against Austria in a World Cup qualifier.

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It’s the biggest game he’s ever played in, he tells year fives at Whitefield Primary School, not far off Breck Road, as he delivers signed pictures and free tickets as part of the Liverpool Red Neighbours scheme.

That campaign ended in heartbreak as his Welsh side were beaten in the last group game by the Republic of Ireland. It still hurts.

“We were so close and it was just ‘almost’, it is devastating. When you get that far and don’t quite make it,” he tells the ECHO.

So has that goal against Austria been worn out on playback at home in Chester or is it all about the future with him?

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“A bit of both! It is nice to look back but you can’t look back at that all the time, you’ve got to think forwards.

“It’s been a massive step for me (international football) and I think it’s down to all the management and everyone at the Academy, they’ve all helped me so much in the last few years.”

As well as international football, Woodburn has been getting experience of European football with Steven Gerrard’s Under-19s this season, the team winning their group which mirrored that of Jurgen Klopp’s senior side.

There is every chance Woodburn will start in the last-16 tie against Manchester United at Prenton Park at 3pm on Wednesday after a few days away with the first team at Porto and then training camp in Marbella.

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Woodburn recalled: “We travelled to Sevilla and Moscow and they’ve been great games. It is different, the weather, the players, the fans - obviously there was lots going on with the fans in Moscow. But it’s good (experience).

“United will be a good game, it could go either way but we’ll back ourselves to win.”

If Woodburn does play on Wednesday he’ll be turning out under a manager who was one of his heroes as a kid in Steven Gerrard, with David Beckham and Ronaldinho the others to make their way onto his bedroom wall.

His father and grandfather were huge football influences who encouraged him to play. From his dad’s team, he took in Crewe and Everton, before signing for Liverpool at nine years old.

Right now he just wants to get back to playing games regularly, at whatever level that might be.

He said: “Obviously every player wants to play football but at the minute I think it’s just to play in any team I can do, whether U19s, first team, U23s. I think it’s just right that I play everywhere.

“Hopefully I’ll get a few more minutes with the first team but also try to win the Youth Champions League and try to win the U23s league as well.”

Woodburn, often deployed on the left of a front three last season, has dropped back more this year and the Reds seem keen to exploit the creative side of his passing game.

Pace has never been the number one asset in his game either and dropping back makes that less of an issue than trying to get past a packed defence further forward. He’s got the skill to it mind.

He’s happy wherever the Liverpool coaching staff want to play him though.

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“They don’t say much, they just put me in the position, I don’t mind playing there, I just want to play as many minutes as I can," he added.

A possible loan move to join former national manager Chris Coleman didn’t materialise, with Ovie Ejaria going instead, but if he was disappointed, Woodburn shows no sign of it.

“It was down to the club and I’m happy to do whatever they want me to do. I’ll work hard and train hard and see where it takes me in the next year.”

That should be Prenton Park on Wednesday but also possibly to Anfield for that Champions League second leg against Porto where surely Jurgen Klopp will fancy some changes.

It may be time to announce himself once again.

Red Neighbours distributes over 1,000 free tickets to local schools throughout the 2017/18 campaign. 55 tickets are provided for each home game, with 21 primary and four high schools in the L4, L5 and L6 postcodes benefiting across the season.