Liverpool Football Club

It is not secret to us that Liverpool soccer players are a bunch of great players. Liverpool rules the European and English football scenes during the 1960's up to the 80's through the supervision of the renowned manager club Bill Shankley along with his successors.

The clubs' honor can be credited to the ever loyal group of trusted personalities comprised by Rafael Benitez, a prized team manager that has a team value of $370 million, club owner and major shareholder as well as club chairman David Moores that owns the 51% share of the club and Rochard Parry, the club's chief executive.

Despite its success, it is not immune to accidents and disasters that perhaps blemished the club's reputation. There is the Heysel together with the Hillsborough stadium disasters in 1985 and 1989 respectively that stand witness to the death of 39 people and followed by another 96 lives that was lost during those fatal tragedies that ensued.

iverpool claimed another set of victory again during the European Championship league in 2004-2005 seasons but their rejoicing was short-lived for they were quickly subdued by the more intense teams like Manchester United, Chelsea and Arsenal during the Premiership matches.

Liverpool defeated A.C. Milan in the May 2005 European Champions League with Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher emerged as star players. The match was held in Istanbul, Turkey in their famous Ataturk Olympic Stadium.

As of now, Liverpool boasts of 5 European Champions Cup, 5 Cup Winners Cups, 3 UEFA Cups and 2 European Super Cups. Aside from European trophies they also had 18 Domestic Championship records and 13 Domestic Cups, 6 of those came from F.A. Cups and 7 League Cups.

Liverpool soccer greats include Steven Gerrard, an English midfielder, Djibril Cisse, a French striker and a Finnish defender named Sammi Hyppia.