Sir Kenny Dalglish to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at SPOTY – Soccer News

Sir Kenny Dalglish shall be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Sports activities Persona of the Yr 2023.

Dalglish, who scored 167 instances in 320 appearances, lifting 9 trophies for Celtic earlier than he moved to Liverpool for a British report switch price on the time of £440,000, shall be handed the award on Tuesday.

Dalglish would go on to turn out to be a Liverpool nice and helped the membership retain the European Cup in opposition to Membership Brugge at Wembley in 1978 by scoring the one purpose of the sport.

Regarded by many at Anfield as ‘King Kenny’ and Liverpool’s best ever footballer, he stays the one participant to attain greater than 100 league targets in each Scotland and England.

Dalglish insisted he wouldn’t have obtained this award with out the assistance of these round him throughout his taking part in and training days, together with gamers and followers.

He mentioned: “Receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award is really an honour.

“I’ve at all times believed within the significance of workforce success and I wouldn’t be the place I’m right now with out the entire gamers I’ve performed with, the folks I’ve labored for and the supporters that stood by me – so that is for them.

“My accolades can be the gamers I performed with, the supporters that stood by me and the supporters that gave me the assist and the boldness to go and play.

“For each membership aspect and nationwide workforce I’ve been concerned with, I’ve at all times mentioned how vital it’s to have the assist of the followers. And the followers who assist you, they’re an important, important a part of any success.

“With all of the groups, I skilled that and I can inform you it’s true, they do assist us.

“Once we are struggling, they’re nonetheless there they usually’re keen you on, making an attempt to get a end result, a constructive end result.”

Dalglish spent six years as supervisor of Liverpool from 1985 and returned to Anfield over 20 years later to switch the sacked Roy Hodgson, whereas he additionally frolicked answerable for Blackburn, Newcastle and Celtic.

“To go from the dressing room to the supervisor’s workplace, I wasn’t at all times probably the most comfy, however I had incredible assist from senior folks at Liverpool,” he added.

“Essentially the most comfy place for me as a participant was within the dressing room. I missed the dressing room, however you’ve obtained to maneuver on in your life and that’s what future was telling me, transfer on.”

Director of BBC Sport, Barbara Slater, mentioned: “Kenny has devoted a lot of his life to soccer, each on the pitch and as a supervisor.

“He’s damaged information for membership and nation and at all times proven himself as a real chief, particularly by means of the tragedy of Hillsborough in 1989 and the years to observe.

“Kenny is a real inspiration and a deserved winner of the BBC Sports activities Persona of the Yr Lifetime Achievement Award.”