Two-hundred disadvantaged youngsters were coached by the Liverpool FC Foundation on Tuesday as part of a new partnership with the Melbourne-based Reagan Milstein Foundation.
Afterwards 30 of the kids got to meet the players during an open training session watched by 15,000 at the MCG, where Liverpool face Melbourne Victory in their third pre-season friendly on Wednesday.
Unsurprisingly, skipper Steven Gerrard was mobbed by the awestruck kids.
The Reagan Milstein Foundation - set up to help children in Australia play sport following the death of 14-year-old Reagan in a scuba diving accident three years ago - is one of two charities in Melbourne that will receive proceeds from ticket sales for the training session.
Reagan's mum, Tamara, told Liverpoolfc.com: "Reagan always wanted to be a famous football player, but at some point he realised that he didn't have the skill, and so he wanted to do sports journalism so he could help raise the awareness of children in less privileged circumstances but that had the skill to play football.
"When Reagan died, his dad, Kevin, set up the foundation to help underprivileged children have the opportunity to play football.
"We started off collecting boots that were too small for children, reconditioning them and re-lacing them and sending them to poor and disadvantaged communities and villages in south-east Asia and the north territory.
"From there the foundation has come to the attention of other sporting communities and we get a lot of donated clothing and kit which we donate, so we're now in a position where we can help underprivileged children play the sport that Reagan loved so much.
"For us the partnership with Liverpool is an opportunity to take Reagan's name into a much wider audience, and children who have not had an opportunity to play sport can now do so."
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