Kenny Dalglish
Football, Football player
1951 –
Who is Kenny Dalglish?
Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish MBE is a Scottish former football player 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 to bring Dalglish to Liverpool.
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- Born
- Mar 4, 1951
Glasgow - Also known as
- Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish
- King Kenny
- Spouses
- Marina Dalglish
(1974/11/26 - )
- Marina Dalglish
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Scottish people
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Glasgow
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on July 23, 2013
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