A few of Liverpool’s most well-known gamers determined they wished to check out administration, and a few have been extra profitable than others.
What to do after hanging up your boots?
It’s a subject numerous gamers by no means wish to broach, preferring to increase their enjoying careers on for so long as potential.
Some, although, are eager to check out teaching and administration, and a few gamers go on to turn out to be higher managers than they ever had been gamers, one thing Jurgen Klopp has by no means been afraid of admitting!
We’ve picked out 21 ex-Liverpool gamers who’re at the moment in administration, in addition to a bunch of others who’ve been managers and assistants up to now.
First-team managers
Steven Gerrard – Aston Villa
Beforehand: Liverpool U18s, Rangers
Having spent an unbelievable 17 years at Liverpool as a participant, Gerrard signalled his intent to maneuver into administration after hanging up his boots in 2016, following a spell at LA Galaxy.
His first step into teaching got here as he took up a job as Liverpool under-18s supervisor in 2017, earlier than Rangers swooped in to make him their first-team coach one 12 months later.
Gerrard is now again within the Premier League as Aston Villa supervisor and a few consider he’s destined to return to Anfield within the dugout at some point.
Nuri Sahin – Antalyaspor
Beforehand: None
That is one which will make you’re feeling slightly previous! Sahin, who spent the primary half of the 2012/13 season on mortgage at Liverpool, moved into administration in October 2021, on the age of 33.
He signed a two-year-deal with Antalyaspor in August 2020, however turned their coach simply over one 12 months later and now desires to focus on a profession in teaching.
Sahin ended his first season in administration by guiding his group to a seventh-placed end within the Turkish Tremendous Lig.
Daniel Agger – HB Koge
Beforehand: None
Former Reds defender Agger introduced his retirement after ending his profession the place it began, with Brondby, in 2016.
He solely moved into administration 5 years later, with Danish 1st Division aspect HB Koge, main them to a seventh-placed end in his first season.
Dirk Kuyt – ADO Den Haag
Beforehand: Fast Boys (assistant supervisor)
Kuyt known as time on his profession as a participant in Might 2017, scoring a hat-trick within the final recreation of the season to safe Feyenoord their first title since 1999.
Lower than a 12 months later, the previous Liverpool ahead got here out of retirement with newbie Dutch group Fast Boys, the place he was already assistant supervisor, to repair their scarcity on strikers for the rest of the season.
In the summertime of 2022, he landed his first job as a supervisor, with second-tier ADO Den Haag handing him a one-year contract in his homeland.
Andrea Dossena – Renate
Beforehand: Crema, Ravenna
Ex-Liverpool left-back Dossena was appointed supervisor of Serie C membership Renate on a one-year deal in June 2022, after guiding earlier membership Ravenna to a second-placed end in Serie D in 2021/22.
The 40-year-old hung up his boots after his contract with Italian aspect Piacenza expired in 2017, earlier than first shifting into administration with Crema two years later.
John Arne Riise – Avaldsnes IL
Beforehand: Birkirkara (sporting director), Flint Tonsberg
Riise loved seven sensible years with the Reds between 2001 and 2008, ending his profession with SK Rollon in 2017.
In 2019, he joined Maltese membership Birkirkara as a sporting director, however resigned after lower than three months as a consequence of private causes.
Later that 12 months he turned supervisor of Norwegian third division membership Flint Tonsberg, leaving after their relegation on the finish of the 2021 season.
He then moved into ladies’s soccer, signing a two-year contract as supervisor of top-flight Norwegian membership Avaldsnes in December 2021.
Paul Ince – Studying
Beforehand: Swindon City (player-coach) Macclesfield City, MK Dons, Blackburn Rovers, Notts County, Blackpool
Ince has taken up quite a few teaching and administration roles since hanging up his boots in 2007 and now finds himself accountable for Championship aspect Studying.
His son and ex-Liverpool youth participant Tom Ince can be at the moment plying his commerce on the Madejski Stadium.
Christian Ziege – FC Pinzgau
Beforehand: Borussia Monchengladbach (numerous roles), Arminia Bielefeld, Germany under-19s, Germany under-18s, SpVgg Unterhaching, Atletico Baleares, Ratchaburi Mitr Phol
Ziege solely spent one season with the Reds after arriving in the summertime of 2000, earlier than becoming a member of Tottenham one 12 months later.
He completed his enjoying profession with Borussia Monchengladbach, the place he’d go on to take roles as under-17s head coach, director of soccer, interim coach and assistant coach between 2006 and 2008.
Since then, Ziege has had quite a few jobs in administration throughout the planet and is at the moment with FC Pinzgau Saalfelden within the third tier of Austrian soccer, the place he’s been since 2019.
Jan Kromkamp – CSV Apeldoorn
Beforehand: None
Dutchman Kromkamp, certainly one of Liverpool’s stranger signings in latest historical past, was pressured to retire in 2013 on the age of simply 33, as a consequence of power knee issues.
In 2020 he took a job in administration within the sixth-tier of Dutch soccer with CSV Apeldoorn and guided them to promotion in 2022.
Nigel Clough – Mansfield City
Beforehand: Burton Albion, Derby County, Sheffield United
Clough’s first style of teaching got here in a player-manager position with Burton Albion, one he remained in for 10 years, earlier than shifting onto Derby County in 2009.
He would return to Burton in 2015 and is at the moment accountable for League Two Mansfield City, the place he’s been since 2020.
Albert Riera – Olimpija Ljubljana
Beforehand: Galatasaray (assistant supervisor)
Riera, who made 56 appearances for the Reds beneath Rafa Benitez, left his position as Galatasaray assistant to take up his first place as a supervisor with Slovenian outfit Olimpija Ljubljana in 2022.
Remarkably, the Spaniard was pressured out of his first press convention as supervisor by the membership’s ‘ultras’ who didn’t agree with appointment, however stays in cost.
Paul Konchesky – West Ham Ladies
Beforehand: West Ham (academy coach), Billericay City (assistant supervisor)
In 2017, Konchesky returned to former membership West Ham in a training capability on the academy, earlier than becoming a member of Billericay as assistant supervisor to Jamie O’Hara in 2020, the place he was additionally registered as a participant.
In Might 2021, the previous Liverpool left-back turned the assistant supervisor of West Ham Ladies and succeeded Olli More durable as supervisor one 12 months later.
Rigobert Tune – Cameroon
Beforehand: Cameroon U23s
Ex-Reds defender Tune ended his enjoying profession with Trabzonspor in 2010 and didn’t transfer into administration for one more six years.
He began as supervisor of Cameroon A, earlier than his work was interrupted by his hospitalisation for a mind aneurysm and subsequent restoration.
In 2018, Tune took cost of the Cameroon under-23 group for the 2019 Africa U23 Cup of Nations marketing campaign and was handed the senior gig after AFCON 2022, changing Toni Conceicao.
Youth group managers
Fernando Torres – Atletico Madrid U19s
Beforehand: None
Torres’ transfer to the dugout was not a right away one, having initially based a series of gyms after calling time on his enjoying profession in 2019.
He made the choice to check out teaching in early 2021, serving to out at youth and B-team stage at Atletico Madrid.
The ex-Liverpool striker is now coach of the Atletico Madrid Juvenil A aspect (under-19s). His group got here up in opposition to Liverpool in 2021/22 UEFA Youth League and ultimately went on to achieve the semi-finals.
Alvaro Arbeloa – Actual Madrid U19s
Beforehand: Actual Madrid under-17s
That’s proper, two ex-Liverpool stars are accountable for the under-19s groups of each Madrid golf equipment!
Arbeloa is working his method up the ranks having initially moved into teaching with Actual’s under-17 group.
The previous Liverpool full-back has been promoted to take cost of the Juvenil A (under-19s) group forward of 2022/23.
Javier Mascherano – Argentina U20s
Beforehand: None
Former Liverpool midfielder Mascherano took his first teaching job in direction of the top of 2021, turning into Argentina under-20’s head coach.
A report in AS claimed the Argentine had issued a sequence of guidelines to his gamers, together with each day homework, English classes and cleansing.
No-nonense midfielder, no-nonsense supervisor!
Alberto Aquilani – Fiorentina U19s
Beforehand: Fiorentina under-18s, Fiorentina (assistant supervisor)
Italian midfielder Aquilani hung up his boots after a spell with Las Palmas in 2018.
Fiorentina, the membership who signed Aquilani from Liverpool in 2012, made him their under-18’s coach in 2019, earlier than he turned assistant to first-team boss Giuseppe Iachini in December of the identical 12 months.
In July 2020 he turned of the Primavera (under-19s) squad, the place he stays to this present day.
Igor Biscan – Croatia U21s
Beforehand: Rudes, Olimpija Ljubljana, Rijeka
Biscan made his first steps into teaching with Rudes in 2016, beginning out as assistant coach, earlier than turning into head coach and guiding his group to the Croatian second division in 2016-17.
His good work there led to an method from Olimpija Ljubljana, the place Riera is now supervisor. There, he gained the Slovenian PrvaLiga title and the Slovenian Cup.
In October 2018 he made the transfer to Rijeka, a controversial appointment given his hyperlinks to rivals Dynamo Zagreb, earlier than he was made Croatia under-21 boss in September 2019.
Gregory Vignal – Dundee U18s
Beforehand: Rangers (academy coach), Rangers Ladies, Marseille (academy coach)
Frenchman Vignal, who had a five-year spell with Liverpool between 2000 and 2005, continues to be engaged on his teaching {qualifications} alongside his position on the Dundee academy.
In July 2019, having labored as an academy coach at Rangers, Vignal was appointed head coach of the membership’s senior ladies’s group. He spent a 12 months there earlier than a quick spell as a coach at Marseille’s academy and a return to Scotland with Dundee.
Xabi Alonso is certainly one of quite a few former Liverpool gamers to have tried their luck in administration not too long ago.
Legendary midfielder Alonso was most not too long ago supervisor of Actual Sociedad B, having began his teaching journey with Actual Madrid under-14s in 2018. He’s broadly anticipated to hold on pursuing a profession in administration.
Sami Hyypia and Markus Babbel have each managed within the Bundesliga.
Iconic Liverpool defender Hyypia had spells accountable for Bayer Leverkusen and Brighton between 2012 and 2014, whereas Babbel took cost of Stuttgart, Hertha BSC and Hoffenheim between 2008 and 2012.
Babbel was most not too long ago supervisor at Western Sydney Wanderers within the A-League.
Mauricio Pellegrino is one other ex-Liverpool star to have excelled on the sidelines. The Argentine was at Southampton in 2017/18 and was most not too long ago in cost at Velez Sarsfield in his homeland.
Robbie Fowler, one of many membership’s finest marksmen, has had numerous roles in administration in Asia and Australia, most not too long ago with East Bengal, whereas Stephane Henchoz final managed Swiss outfit Neuchatel Xamax in 2020.
Different ex-Liverpool strikers, Fernando Morientes and Nicolas Anelka, have additionally each toyed with the concept of managerial careers.
Morientes’ final place in administration was with decrease tier Spanish aspect Fuenlabrada in 2015/16, whereas Anelka’s positions since hanging up his boots have included player-coach roles with Shanghai Shenhua and Mumbai Metropolis.
Abel Xavier was briefly accountable for the Mozambique nationwide group and Brad Friedel dipped his toes in administration with america’ under-19s group and New England Revolution.
Craig Bellamy is certainly one of quite a few ex-Reds who’re both working their method by means of the teaching ranks as assistants or have settled into roles as No. 2s.
Welshman Bellamy is now working alongside Vincent Kompany at Burnley, having beforehand been accountable for Anderlecht under-21s.
Steven Gerrard’s right-hand man at Aston Villa is Gary McAllister, who additionally labored alongside him at Rangers.
Harry Kewell is at the moment first-team coach at Celtic, beforehand supervisor of Watford under-23s, Crawley, Notts County, Oldham and Barnet.
Denmark’s assistant supervisor is Christian Poulsen, certainly one of Roy Hodgson’s well-known Liverpool additions in 2010.
Robbie Keane (Middlesbrough), Bolo Zenden (Jong PSV), Djimi Traore (Seattle Sounders), Nick Barmby (Scunthorpe United) and Andriy Voronin (Dynamo Moscow) are among the many different ex-Liverpool gamers to take up roles as assistants in recent times.
