Liam Millar

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Liam Millar
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Liam Millar (2017)
Personnel
birthday September 27, 1999
place of birth Toronto , Ontario ,  Canada
size 178 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
2003-2005 Brampton Youth SC
2005-2013 North Mississauga SC
2013-2016 Fulham FC
2016– Liverpool FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2019– Liverpool FC (U-23) 0 (0)
2019-2020 →  FC Kilmarnock  (loan) 16 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2014 Canada U-17
2016– Canada U-20 3 (0)
2018– Canada U-21 4 (0)
2018– Canada 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of September 9, 2019

2 As of August 12, 2018

Liam Millar (born September 27, 1999 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian football player on the position of a striker .

Club career

Started his career in Canada and moved to Fulham

Liam Millar was born on September 27, 1999 in the metropolis of Toronto to a soccer-loving family - his father Alan and his grandfather Malcolm were already soccer players - and began his career as a soccer player at the age of four at the youth training club Brampton Youth SC in the city of Brampton, northwest of Toronto in which he also grew up. In 2005 he was registered with North Mississauga SC , another youth club located a few kilometers south, and went through all divisions and was active there until 2013. The age of 13, he made the jump to Europe in 2013 and came to the Academy of Premier League clubs frequently Fulham under. There he initially had problems finding his way in English football. By his own admission, it took two and a half years before he got into English football. After almost three years in west London , Millar moved to Merseyside and joined Liverpool FC academy in the summer of 2016 , where he initially struggled with injury problems.

Aspiring player for Liverpool

On August 15, 2016, the 16-year-old started the Professional U18 Development League , colloquially known as the U18 Premier League , and scored his first goal in the third minute after Herbie Kane presented his first goal. After another submission by Kane in minute 54 and an assist from Yan Dhanda in the 56th minute, he scored the goals to 2-0 and 3-0, before he was replaced by Glen McAuley in the 64th minute and the game against Blackburn Rovers U-18 ended in a 4-0 Liverpool win. After he was used by coach Neil Critchley in the two subsequent league games over the full game, Millar injured himself seriously in the fourth championship round against the offspring of Stoke City when he pulled a 15 centimeter tear in his quadriceps . As a result, Millar , who had been used as a center forward and hanging tip up to this point, was injured for three months and only returned to the Reds' regular squad in mid-January 2017 . Just a month after his first game for Liverpool FC, the Canadian signed his first professional contract on the day of his 17th birthday.

After that, with the exception of one game when he was playing an international match for his home country, he was used in all games up to the end of the first championship phase, with a total of ten out of 22 possible appearances in this phase ending at the beginning of March on six hits and an assist came. He continued to be used in various offensive positions; mostly as a left winger and a center forward. As third place in the North Division , Liverpool FC qualified after the first round for Group 1 of the second championship phase. Millar played in all of his team's seven games and, despite a relatively good start, ended up eighth and last in Group 1. The Canadian, who was mostly left winger but also center forward, stayed in these matches himself goalless, but was able to provide an assist in the first game when he had to leave the field after a red card in the 30th minute . According to his own statements, Millar scored around 45 to 50 goals in around 32 games in the 2016/17 season, including the friendship and test match.

First appearances in the Reds U-23 team

In the following season 2017/18 Millar started as a regular player in the offensive of the U-18 academy team and took part with them in the group stage (Champions League path) of the 2017/18 UEFA Youth League . There Liverpool won five of their six games and moved into the round of 16 as Group E winners . After a 2-0 win there over the youth of Manchester United , the team was eliminated in the subsequent quarter-finals on penalties against Manchester City . The Canadian was used in all eight Youth League games, scored two goals and did the preparatory work for three more goals by his teammates. Under the now U-18 coach Steven Gerrard , he continued to play in various offensive positions in the U18 Premier League , but mostly remained true to his traditional position as a center forward. In 18 out of 22 possible missions in the first regular round of the U-18 league, he was able to convince again with his goal danger and offensive strength; He was able to contribute eight goals and six assists at the end of the regular season. On January 12, 2018, he made his breakthrough into the U-23 squad again under Neil Critchley when he came on the pitch in the 12th minute of stoppage time in the first half for Rhian Brewster in the 3-2 away defeat by Manchester City and In minute 90 Toni Gomes did the preparatory work for the goal to make it 2: 3 . Under Critchley, the 18-year-old Canadian made nine championship appearances in the Professional U23 Development League , the colloquial U23 Premier League , in which, however, he remained goalless. The assist in his debut game should also remain the only one in the U-23 team this season.

He already started the 2018/19 season for the U-23 team, with a possible move to Sunderland AFC reported in the media shortly before the start of the season .

Loan to Scotland

In January 2019 Millar was awarded to FC Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premiership . He made his debut for the Killies on February 1, 2019 against Heart of Midlothian . In August 2019, Millar was again awarded to Kilmarnock.

National team career

During his early days at Fulham FC, Millar gained his first experience in a junior national team of the Canadian Soccer Association when he was summoned to a training camp for the Canadian U-17 national team by coach Sean Fleming and then at the Montaigu tournament as a 14-year-old participated. After that, almost two and a half years passed before Millar took part in a nine-day training camp for the Canadian U-20 men in Costa Rica under coach Rob Gale . After that, it took Gale another six months to get him into Canada's U-20 squad for another time. He took part in the CONCACAF U-20 championship of 2017 with a squad of 20 players . At the finals in Costa Rica, for which the Canadians had automatically qualified, the offensive player was used in all three group games of the Canadians. With just one win from these three games, Canada finished third in Group A behind Honduras (second) and Mexico (first) and retired early from the current tournament.

During his successful time at the Academy of Liverpool FC, Millar was appointed to the squad of the Canadian senior team for the first time in March 2018 by the new Canadian national coach John Herdman . During this training camp, the 18-year-old made his A international debut when he was on the pitch in a 1-0 win over New Zealand and played through the full 90 minutes. In May 2018 he took the 21-team U-Canadian at the Tournament of Toulon in part. With his home country, however, he was eliminated in the group stage when the second place in Group C was occupied behind Turkey ; he himself was used by the coaching team John Herdman and Mauro Biello in all three group games.

Web links

Commons : Liam Millar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Meet the Academy: Liam Millar (English), accessed on August 12, 2018
  2. ↑ Who is Liverpool U18s hat trick hero Liam Millar? (English), accessed on August 12, 2018
  3. ↑ a b A star in the making - 16-year-old Liam Millar scores hat-trick on U18s debut , accessed on August 12, 2018
  4. ^ Academy striker Liam Millar signs professional contract , accessed on August 12, 2018
  5. ↑ Liam Millar, his Liverpool dream and why he isn't ready to wake up just yet , accessed on August 12, 2018
  6. ^ Liam Millars UEFA Youth League Profile , accessed August 12, 2018
  7. ↑ Canada call up Liverpool youngster Liam Millar (English), accessed on August 12, 2018
  8. ↑ Sunderland AFC round-up: Cats target Liverpool forward for youth set-up as ex-coach hails youngsters (English), accessed on August 12, 2018
  9. ↑ Who is Liam Millar? The promising Liverpool striker set to sign for Sunderland , accessed August 12, 2018
  10. ↑ [2014-04] Tournoi Montaigu (English), accessed on August 12, 2018
  11. ↑ [2016-09] Men's U-20 camp in Costa Rica , accessed on August 12, 2018
  12. ↑ Canada names young squad for CONCACAF U-20 Championship , accessed on August 12, 2018
  13. ↑ [2017-02] CONCACAF Men's Under-20 Championship (English), accessed on August 12, 2018
  14. ↑ John Herdman names roster for 1st match in charge of men's team , accessed August 12, 2018
  15. ↑ Ricketts lifts Canada to victory over New Zealand in friendly , accessed August 12, 2018
  16. ↑ Canada 1, New Zealand 0 | International Friendly Recap , accessed August 12, 2018
  17. ↑ [2018-05] Festival International Espoirs Provence (English), accessed on August 12, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Millar, Liam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1999
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada