Daniel Agger

Jul 31, 2023

smsmalex 12 seconds ago 0 Daniel Agger was such a cult hero at Liverpool that he even got a tattoo to prove it. Signed in 2006 from Brondby, the Dane joined Jamie Carragher and Sami Hyypia in Rafa Benitez’s defensive body and quickly became a fan favourite. Agger was an icon at Anfield Getty Getty His elegant passing, epic long-range goals and tough tackles got the Anfield crowd moving swiftly towards Agger, who was one of the team’s stars in a run to the Champions League final. Champions League 2007. Scoring a memorable strike against Chelsea in the semi-finals, Agger wrote his name in the club’s history books, and Liverpool literally did the same for him. A You’ll Never Walk Alone tattoo on his knuckles at the start of the 2012 season showed just how committed the Dane was, and he almost capped his nine-year Merseyside career with a league title under Brendan Rodgers in 2014 . However, this was not to be the case, and back at Brondby later that year, back pain saw him retire from the game he loved. He explained: “I’ve taken too many anti-inflammatories in my career.” “I know it very well, and it sucks, but I stopped it. I personally gain nothing by saying this, but I can only hope that other athletes will. “Others might take a pill or two less.” Without the physical toll of football, Agger was able to enjoy one of his other retirement passions, tattoos. Agger showed his love of Liverpool in 2012 @danielagger22 Getty @danielagger22 His first came when he was a kid, and he’s now covered in it from head to toe. Explaining where his epic art began, he said: “I was around 15 and on a school trip to Paris. “It wasn’t something I had thought about before. A friend and I went into the store and said that was what we were going to get and we got it. I still have it today.” Adding an epic viking graveyard tattoo to his back, he said: “I see it as one piece, when I talk to people I talk about my tattoo as one piece, but obviously every tattoo has a story, some better than others.” He has an epic Viking graveyard on his back Getty And explaining the addition of YNWA 2012, he added: “The timing was quite good “(There were) a lot of rumors sending me to another club for a lot of money but I knew I was staying. “Somehow I wanted to show that to the world of football and that was how I wanted to show it.” Now a skilled tattoo artist and co-owner of Tattoodo, Agger took another interesting career turn by investing in his brother’s sewer business shortly before retiring. Agger entered the sewers @danielagger22 The brand named KloAgger, which translates to Agger toilets, was run by his brother Marco before being sold in 2022. Agger, meanwhile, dabbled in management with HB Koge for two years, and even briefly signed up as a player again. It didn’t quite work out, but he was still able to reclaim the pitch at his beloved Anfield in a number of legends games and feel the adulation of a crowd who remember him as a real red. talkSPORT football match center Keep up to date with all the latest Liverpool matches and results and the live Premier League standings in our new Match Centre. Liverpool schedule for 2023/24