Ronnie Moran
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Ronald Moran | ||
| Date of birth | 28 February 1934 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Playing position | Left-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Liverpool | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1952–1968 | Liverpool | 343 | (16) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1991 | Liverpool (Caretaker) | ||
| 1992 | Liverpool (Caretaker) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Ronnie Moran (born 28 February 1934) is a former Liverpool captain and coach, who twice served as caretaker manager (after the departure of Kenny Dalglish and when Graeme Souness was absent due to heart surgery) in the early 1990s.
Having spent his entire playing career at the club and then becoming a member of the coaching staff after hanging up his boots, he was the club's longest-serving employee when he finally retired in 1998, and a surviving member of the Liverpool Boot Room, with the likes of Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, and Reuben Bennett having all died by this stage.
Moran was born in Crosby, Liverpool, and began his footballing career at Liverpool as an apprentice electrician playing with the 'C' team. Originally a left back, Moran signed professional terms for manager Don Welsh in January 1952 and subsequently made his debut in a 3–2 defeat at Derby County on 22 November 1952, at the age of 18 years.
It was in season 1955–56 that Moran established himself as Liverpool's first choice number three. The Reds were languishing in the Second Division at this time but Moran, a good marker who was rarely beaten by a winger for pace and was also something of a penalty expert, proved himself a consistent performer missing only six games between 1955 and 1959. Unfortunately he always hit his penalties low and to the goalkeepers' right and nearer the end of his playing career he became 'known' for this and had a number saved by the goalies .
He was rewarded for his sterling service towards the latter part of the decade when he was handed the club captaincy. In 1961–62, after a lengthy spell on the sidelines, he played sixteen games as the Reds finally regained their top-flight status and two seasons later was part of the Division One Championship winning side missing only seven games all season.
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