Kenny Dalglish
Dalglish in Singapore, 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish | ||
| Date of birth | 4 March 1951 | ||
| Place of birth | Glasgow, Scotland | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1967–1968 | Cumbernauld United | ||
| 1968–1969 | Celtic | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1969–1977 | Celtic | 204 | (112) |
| 1977–1990 | Liverpool | 355 | (118) |
| Total | 559 | (230) | |
| National team | |||
| 1971–1986 | Scotland | 102 | (30) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1985–1991 | Liverpool | ||
| 1991–1995 | Blackburn Rovers | ||
| 1997–1998 | Newcastle United | ||
| 2000 | Celtic | ||
| 2011–2012 | Liverpool | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish, MBE (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former footballer and manager. In a career spanning 22 years, he played for Celtic and Liverpool, winning numerous honours with both. He is Scotland's most capped player of all time with 102 appearances, and also Scotland's joint-leading goal scorer, with 30 goals. Dalglish won the Ballon d'Or Silver Award in 1983, the PFA Player of the Year in 1983, and the FWA Footballer of the Year in 1979 and 1983. In 2009 FourFourTwo named Dalglish as the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006 he topped a Liverpool fans' poll of "100 Players Who Shook the Kop". He has been inducted into both the Scottish and English Football Halls of Fame.
Dalglish began his career with Celtic in 1971, going on to win four Scottish First Divisions, four Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup with the club. In 1977, Liverpool manager Bob Paisley paid a British transfer record of £440,000 (£2,465,000 today) to bring Dalglish to Liverpool. His years at Liverpool were among the club's most successful periods, as he won six Football League First Divisions, two FA Cups, four League Cups, seven FA Charity Shields, three European Cups and one UEFA Super Cup. For these achievements and his style of play he was given the name King Kenny by Liverpool supporters. Dalglish became player-manager of Liverpool in 1985 after the resignation of Joe Fagan, winning a further three First Divisions, two FA Cups and four FA Charity Shields, before resigning from Liverpool in 1991.
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