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Virgil Van Dijk

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Throughout the many years that Liverpool have been a soccer club, there have been many club legends that have been very important to the success of Liverpool and helped them in the club that they are today

Van Dijk is the best and most complete defender to ever play for the Reds. (Nickname for Liverpool) He has helped Liverpool to multiply trophies in his time as a Liverpool player. He stands at a massive 6’5 which makes him a big problem on corners as he’s bigger than most players and can easily score headers any place near the box. He’s also very strong as he can take opponents of the ball with ease and start a counterattack to try and score a goal.

His club-record £75 million transfer from Southampton is one of the most influential of Jurgen Klopp’s reign (Jurgen Klopp, former Liverpool manager. Won them 1 champion league trophy and 1 Premier League trophy), one of his best signings in all of his time. Virgil Van Dijk has been a great addition to the Liverpool Line up for the 10 years he has been at the club.

Van Dijk can do it all, and often does so with a nonchalance that suggests there is even more in his locker than he gives away. He usually doesn’t get mad and is a very chill guy.

Background Story
Since they were founded in 1892, the Liverpool Football Club name was synonymous with fame and glory. Internationally, Liverpool is the most successful British club of all time with plenty of European trophies on their record. They are one of the most popular football teams in the world, with over 200 supporter clubs in at least 50 different countries. And yet, their magnificent history will forever be plagued by two of the worst stadium disasters of all time: Heysel and Hillsborough.

History

Following the moving of Everton to Goodison Park in 1892, the club’s then-president John Houlding suddenly found himself with the rights to Anfield stadium and no team to play on it. Always a practical man, Houlding quickly decided to circumvent this problem by forming his own club – Liverpool (should not be confused with Liverpool Ramblers AFC that was founded ten years earlier).

After becoming a member of the Football League in 1893, the team managed to get promoted to first division after one season in the second division. Early on, Liverpool established themselves as one of England’s top clubs, winning League titles in 1901, 1906, 1922 and 1923.

The Bill Shankly Era

Though an immensely popular club even then, Liverpool FC were not particularly consistent in the post-WWII period. After claiming their fourth League title in 1947, the club entered a period of mediocrity which culminated with their relegation to Second Division in 1954. Things took a turn for the better after Bill Shankly was hired as manager, however; Shankly’s first order of business was to release the entire first team squad. He then turned the club’s storage room into the famous “Boot Room”, a place that would serve as the coaches’ secret meeting place for the next three decades.6yy

Shankly’s unorthodox methods bore fruit soon enough. After making their way back to the First Division in 1962, Liverpool won the League two years later. During the reminder of Shankly’s tenure as manager, they claimed an additional two League titles (1966, 1973), two FA Cups (1965, 1974), as well as their first European trophy – the 1973 UEFA Cup. In 1974, Shankly resigned from his job due to a need for a break, leaving the club in the hands of his assistant, Bob Paisley.

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Kenny Dalglish (Following Stars of Liverpool)

To a certain generation of Liverpool fan, ‘King’ Kenny Dalglish will always be their number one. And rightly so. He was a machine in the day and led Liverpool to most of the t that they have today,

Brought in to replace the outgoing King Kevin (Keegan), Dalglish ended his first season at Anfield by scoring the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup final – and the rest, as they say, is history.

Six league titles in the next eight seasons followed, along with another two European Cups, as Dalglish led Liverpool to trophy domination in England and Europe. The latter of those titles was achieved as a 35-year-old player-manager, scoring the winner at Stamford Bridge and leading the Reds to a league and FA Cup double. He was 35 years old at the time. He was in his Prime and showed the Liverpool was a force to be reckoned back in day.

Now a Sir, Dalglish did it all on the pitch and off it. His character in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster will never be forgotten by the families on Merseyside, with Dalglish and his wife, Marina, attending dozens of funerals, including four in one day. This Hillsborough Disaster was when thousands of people died at the Anfield Stadium. The people who were to close to the electrical fence around the field where getting pushed into it and they couldn’t escape. Many people died because of this. He felt bad for all of the people how lost a love one that day and didn’t just want to do nothing about it. He wanted to show respect and to show that he cares about other people.

“When Kenny shines, the whole team is illuminated,” Bob Paisley eloquently once put it. And boy, did King Kenny shine for Liverpool.