Playing Career Kenny Dalglish (Pelatih Liverpool)

Early career

Dalglish, the son of an engineer, grew up supporting Rangers. Though born in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow, he was brought up in Milton in the north of Glasgow and moved to the docklands of Govan, near Ibrox, home of Rangers, when he was 15.
Dalglish attended Milton Bank Primary School in Milton and started out as a goalkeeper. He was attending High Possil Senior Secondary School where he won the inter-schools five-a-side and the inter-year five-a-side competitions when he appeared for the Scotland under-15s in a fixture against their Northern Irish counterparts, playing outfield as a right-half and scoring twice. Dalglish played for Glasgow Schoolboys and Glasgow Schools (winning the Scottish Cup), and was then selected for the Scottish schoolboys team, where they enjoyed an undefeated run to win the home nations Victory Shield tournament.
He had trials at West Ham and notably at Liverpool, but they came to nothing.Dalglish instead signed for Celtic, the Old Firm rivals of Rangers.

Celtic

Dalglish signed his provisional contract with Celtic in May 1967. Sean Fallon came to see Dalglish and his parents at their home. Hearing that Fallon was at the door, Dalglish raced to his bedroom and frantically tore down the Rangers posters on his bedroom walls. In his first season Dalglish was loaned out to Cumbernauld United for whom he scored 37 goals during the 1967–68 season. He also worked as an apprentice joiner.
By the following year he had turned fully professional and was a regular member of a Celtic reserve team so highly rated it was known as the Quality Street Gang, due to its unparalleled production of future Scottish internationals: Danny McGrain, George Connelly, Lou Macari, David Hay and Dalglish.^[12]
Dalglish made his first-team competitive debut as a substitute in the 1968 Scottish League Cup quarter-final tie against Hamilton Academical.
It took Dalglish three years to establish himself in the first team. Eventually Stein gave Dalglish his chance in a benefit match for Kilmarnock defender Frank Beattie in May 1971. The result was 7–2 to Celtic, with Dalglish scoring six of the Celtic goals.
In the 1971–72 season, Dalglish scored his first competitive goal for Celtic, via the penalty spot, in the 2–0 Scottish League Cup tie win over Rangers at Ibrox, on 14 August 1971. He went on that season to score 23 league and cup goals in 49 appearances.
The following season, Dalglish was Celtic's leading scorer with 41 goals in all competitions. Dalglish was made Celtic captain in 1975–76. However, Stein was badly hurt in a car crash and missed most of the season,^] and Celtic failed to win a trophy for the first time in 12 years.
On 10 August 1977, after 269 appearances and 167 goals, Dalglish moved to Liverpool for a British record £440,000 transfer fee. Dalglish's departure was extremely unpopular with the Celtic fans, and when he returned in August 1978 to play in Stein's testimonial, he was booed by a large element of the Celtic supporters.

Liverpool

The Liverpool support initially had reservations about Dalglish's ability to replace Kevin Keegan,^[17] but Dalglish settled in quickly. He made his debut, wearing Keegan's famous number seven shirt, in the season opener at Wembley, on 13 August 1977 in the Charity Shield against Manchester United, which ended in a draw. He scored his first goal in his league debut a week later on 20 August, against Middlesbrough. Dalglish also scored on his Anfield debut three days later in a 2–0 victory over Newcastle United, and he scored Liverpool's sixth goal when they beat Keegan's Hamburg 6–0 in the second leg of the 1977 UEFA Super Cup final. At the end of his first season, Dalglish had played 62 times, scoring 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.
In April 1980, Liverpool paid £300,000 for Ian Rush, an 18-year-old Chester striker.^[18] After he had made the breakthrough into the first team, Rush thrived alongside Dalglish. The pair's goals helped the Anfield club win the League championship and a 3–1 League Cup final win over Tottenham Hotspur in which Rush scored a goal a minute from the end of extra time. A year earlier, Dalglish had himself scored in the 1981 Football League Cup Final.
Dalglish was an ever present in his first three league campaigns at Liverpool, his second campaign (1978–79) being his personal best at the club with 21 league goals. He did not miss a league game for Liverpool until the 1980–81 season, when he appeared in 34 out of 42 league games and scored just eight goals as Liverpool finished fifth in the league but still managed to win the European Cup and Football League Cup. He recovered his goalscoring form the following season and was ever-present once again, scoring 13 goals as Liverpool became league champions for the 13th time, and the third time since Dalglish's arrival. Dalglish was voted PFA Player of the Year for the 1982–83 season, during which he scored 18 league goals as Liverpool retained their title; however, after this season his goalscoring record became less prolific, though he remained a regular player.
After becoming player-manager on the retirement of Joe Fagan in the 1985 close season, Dalglish selected himself for just 21 First Division games in 1985–86 as Liverpool won the double, but he started the FA Cup final win over Everton. On the final day of the league season, his goal in a 1–0 away win over Chelsea gave Liverpool their 16th league title.
Dalglish had a personally better campaign in the 1986–87 season, this time scoring six goals from just 18 league appearances, but he was now firmly committed to giving younger players priority for a first team place.
With the sale of Ian Rush to Juventus in the 1987 close season, Dalglish chose to form a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley for the 1987–88, during which he played just twice in a league campaign which saw Liverpool seal their 17th title. He did not participate as a player in their 1988–89 league campaign, and made his final league appearance on 5 May 1990 when he came on as a substitute against Derby County F.C.. At 39, he was one of the oldest players ever to play for Liverpool. His final goal had come three years earlier, in a 3-0 home league win over Nottingham Forest on 18 April 1987.

Scotland

Tommy Docherty gave Dalglish his debut for the Scottish national side as a substitute in the 1–0 Euro '72 qualifier victory over Belgium on 10 November 1971 at Pittodrie. He scored his first goal for Scotland a year later on 15 November 1972 in the 2–0 World Cup qualifier win over Denmark at Hampden Park. Scotland eventually qualified and he went to the 1974 FIFA World Cup in West Germany. Scotland were eliminated during the group stages, even though they were undefeated.
In 1976 Dalglish scored the winning goal for Scotland at Hampden Park against England, by nutmegging Ray Clemence. A year later Dalglish scored against the same opponents and goalkeeper at Wembley in another 2–1 win.
He went on to play in both the 1978 FIFA World Cup in Argentina, scoring against eventual runners-up the Netherlands in a famous 3–2 win, and the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, scoring against New Zealand. On both occasions Scotland failed to get past the group stage. In total, Dalglish played 102 times for Scotland (a national record) and scored 30 goals (also a national record, shared with Denis Law despite Law having only 55 caps).

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