{"id":297130,"date":"2023-12-17T01:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T01:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/?p=297130"},"modified":"2023-12-17T01:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T01:24:14","slug":"kenny-dalglish-set-to-be-honoured-with-lifetime-achievement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsloveme.com\/soccer\/kenny-dalglish-set-to-be-honoured-with-lifetime-achievement-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Dalglish set to be honoured with Lifetime Achievement award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Liverpool and Scotland icon Sir Kenny Dalglish will be celebrated with a lifetime acheivement award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Dalglish has been a brilliant servant to football both during his playing career, managerial career and retirement.<\/p>\n
The 72-year-old is a legend at his beloved Anfield where he enjoyed tremendous success as a star striker during the late 1970s and further along as Liverpool manager.<\/p>\n
Dalglish is also a much-loved member of Scottish football and is credited with being the nation’s most-capped male player and joint record goalscorer<\/p>\n
Reacting to the news he would be given the lifetime achievement accolade, Dalglish modestly paid tribute to the value of teamwork.<\/p>\n
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Kenny Dalglish has been awarded the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year lifetime achievement accolade<\/p>\n
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Dalglish is a legend at Liverpool and watched current manager Jurgen Klopp conducting a training session earlier in the year<\/p>\n
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‘Receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award is truly an honour,’ he told the BBC.<\/p>\n
‘I have always believed in the importance of team success, and I wouldn’t be where I am today without all of the players I’ve played with, the people I’ve worked for, and the supporters that stood by me, so this is for them.’<\/p>\n
Dalglish won\u00a0eight league titles and three European Cups at Liverpool and also guided Blackburn from the previous second division to the Premier League title in 1998.<\/p>\n
In his post-football retirement, Dalglish was a strong advocate of gaining justice for the tragic Hillsborough disaster having been manager of the club on that day.<\/p>\n
The incident had a profound effect on him and was eventually one of the reasons cited for leaving his role as Liverpool manager before he took charge at Blackburn.<\/p>\n
He later returned for a second spell managing Liverpool between 2011 and 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Daglish carved out a legendary status as a Liverpool player before going on to enjoy management success at the club<\/p>\n
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Dalglish also won the Premier League title with Blackburn Rovers in 1998<\/p>\n
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Dalglish has also previously been awarded Liverpool’s Freedom of the City title<\/p>\n
Dalglish has previously been awarded Liverpool’s Freedom of the City title\u00a0for his support of families affected by the Hillsborough disaster.<\/p>\n
He paid tribute to how much the club means to him ahead of receiving his upcoming SPOTY award: ‘The football club means everything to ourselves as a family.<\/p>\n
It’s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n ‘Glasgow and Liverpool are very similar. Obviously, they have shipyards with two teams in the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘But for me, the people were fantastic as well. They’ve got a real sense of humour and they take time to talk to you,; he added.<\/p>\n