Liverpool confirm full 18-player squad for Legends match v Ajax; four Istanbul heroes included

Liverpool have confirmed the total squad for the LFC Legends match towards Ajax at Anfield on 23 March.

The Merseyside membership introduced the remaining additions to the 18-man roster for the annual fundraising fixture in help of the LFC Basis, with greater than 54,000 tickets already offered for the sport (by way of liverpoolfc.com).

The squad has been accomplished by the inclusions of Sami Hyypia, Bjorn Tore Kvarme, Jay Spearing, Momo Sissoko and Maxi Rodriguez, with the Reds’ line-up being managed by Sven-Goran Eriksson, Ian Rush, John Aldridge and John Barnes.

The complete Liverpool Legends squad reads as follows:

Goalkeepers: Jerzy Dudek, Sander Westerveld

Defenders: Bjorn Tore Kvarme, Daniel Agger, Fabio Aurelio, Gregory Vignal, Igor Biscan, Martin Skrtel, Sami Hyypia

Midfielders: Jay Spearing, Mark Gonzalez, Maxi Rodriguez, Momo Sissoko

Forwards: Dirk Kuyt, Djibril Cisse, Fernando Torres, Nabil El Zhar, Ryan Babel

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There’s no scarcity of 2000s nostalgia on supply for Liverpool followers there, together with 4 members of the squad which gained our fifth European Cup in Istanbul in 2005 (Dudek, Hyypia, Biscan, Cisse).

Each participant taking part on the day deserves enormous credit score for giving up their time for such a worthy trigger, with the LFC Basis serving to to vary lives each day via their number of programmes.

A big portion of the funds raised from this 12 months’s Legends match will go in the direction of academic programmes to assist initiatives to deal with a variety of social points, together with poor academic outcomes, youth unemployment and younger folks turning into concerned in gangs and crime (liverpoolfc.com).

It’s good to see so many tickets already offered for the fixture, and hopefully Anfield will probably be full to capability on 23 March, when followers will get an opportunity to see some nice Reds gamers of yesteryear return to the enduring stadium, whereas additionally doing their bit to assist a improbable trigger.

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