On Merseyside, football can been seen as a way of life whether you're red or blue – and it was the one thing Gepthe knew well as he made his adjustment.
He continued to harbour hopes of becoming a professional footballer and spent much of his teenage years playing for a team in Dingle with friends from school.
His talent landed him trials with clubs in Scotland, including Heart of Midlothian, and a contract offer in the lower leagues north of the border.
Gepthe was also offered a full college scholarship to move to Philadelphia in the USA and play during his further education.
But he eventually settled on remaining studying sport exercise science at John Moores University.
"Originally I wanted to do accounting and finance," he explains.
"When I was studying, I had some mates who wanted to be coaches and were doing their badges. I was still playing and still had offers coming in so I dismissed it completely.
"There's a guy who works at Liverpool now called Yinka \[Ademuyiwa\] around the first team. He used to coach me when I was younger in Kenny \[Kensington\] in those community sessions the club put on.
"We built a really good relationship from there, and he had started his own coaching company and when he gave me a job I did like one hour a week for him.
"That's how my coaching journey started. He was always telling me I'd be good at it. He then got me involved in doing camps.
"I didn't have any badges at the time and I wasn't going to bother, but then I went for a job at the Foundation – even though I still had to be convinced because I still wasn't sure on it.
"Eventually I felt like I could do more and the Academy was never in my mind. I never said to myself that I wanted to be a football coach at all. I got spotted by someone who was scouting the kids one day, and they got in touch with Yinka because they thought I was good.
"I got a phone call, and I initially wasn't interested at all because I still had other hopes and things I preferred. I actually recommended a friend! But then I started casually initially, and it just went from there and the love grew."