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Godfrey Torto is the former Chelsea youth team player helping talented kids from London's toughest estates make it in the professional game... and now wants to raise funds for Grenfell Tower victims through football

On an early summer's day in 2012, Godfrey Torto watched from his car as the rain lashed down in Ravenscourt Park and wondered whether to bother.

A few years earlier he had been a hot prospect in Chelsea's academy - a contemporary of John Terry and Jody Morris - only to see his dreams of stardom wrecked by injury and some fatefully bad advice.

From then on, Torto had vowed that other youngsters treading his same path from rough inner-city estate to professional football would have the guiding hand he didn't have.

Godfrey Torto pictured in Ravenscourt Park, west London, where he started his AG Football Academy five years ago with the aim of lifting players from tough estates into the game
Godfrey Torto pictured in Ravenscourt Park, west London, where he started his AG Football Academy five years ago with the aim of lifting players from tough estates into the game
Torto (left) was a contemporary of Jody Morris (right) in Chelsea's academy during their playing days. Morris, now the club's youth team coach, greets Yasin Ben El-Mhanni, one of the players who has come through Torto's academyu00a0
Torto (left) was a contemporary of Jody Morris (right) in Chelsea's academy during their playing days.