The Manchester City star will cover the costs after the 13-year-old succumbed to the illness four years after initially being diagnosed
Raheem Sterling will pay for the funeral of Damary Dawkins, the Crystal Palace youth player who died of cancer last month at the age of 13.
Dawkins' family had set up a fundraising page to raise £15,000 for the ceremony after acute lymphoblastic leukaemia claimed his life in March 17, four years after he was diagnosed.
Sterling helped support a campaign to help find a stem cell donor for the teenager, who relapsed in February following a transplant in December.