Ronnie Moran

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Ronnie Moran
Personnel
Surname Ronald Moran
birthday February 28, 1934
place of birth Crosby ,  England
date of death 22nd March 2017
Place of death Crosby ,  England
position Defender (left)
Juniors
Years station
Crosby Boys
Liverpool FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1952-1968 Liverpool FC 342 (15)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1991 Liverpool FC (interim)
1992 Liverpool FC (interim)
1 Only league games are given.

Ronald "Ronnie" Moran (born February 28, 1934 in Crosby ; † March 22, 2017 ibid) was an English football player and coach . He was with Liverpool for a total of 46 years , as a player on the left defensive side at times captain and member of the championship team from 1964 . Later he was on the club's coaching staff and was responsible for the club for a short time at the beginning of the 1990s.

Athletic career

Ronnie Moran joined Liverpool FC at the age of 15 . A postman is said to have played a not insignificant role, who on the one hand was good friends with Moran's brother and who also delivered letters to the Liverpool club chairman. This recommended the talent that had already accumulated for the "Crosby Boys" and a youth selection from the county of Lancashire , and when an interested scout from rival Everton FC invited him, Moran had already stayed with the "Reds" the week before - Coach George Kay and Liverpool's President had visited him in his parents' house. Initially, Moran was a pure amateur player who was used as an electrician apprentice in the third team. Shortly before his 18th birthday, he signed his first professional contract in Liverpool in January 1952. He made his debut against Derby County as a left-back in November 1952 and was used sporadically in the year and a half that followed. By the end of the 1953/54 season, he completed 13 games and at the end had to accept relegation to the second division as bottom of the table . From the following season 1954/55 Moran then blossomed into a regular player, which in turn was favored by the fact that the long-time left-back Eddie Spicer had to end his career after a broken leg. In the five years after relegation, he only missed a total of six league games, convinced with a consistently high level of commitment and became a key player in the second division team now trained by Phil Taylor .

When Bill Shankly hired Liverpool FC as the new coach in 1959 , Moran had matured to become captain. On October 1, 1961, Moran was injured so badly that, apart from an unfortunate comeback attempt in January 1961, he was out for over fourteen months. Nevertheless, he had a sufficient share in the recovery in 1962 and he received an official medal. Two years later, with 35 appearances and one goal, he helped Liverpool win the English championship . In the FA Cup , however, he had missed an important penalty in the 80th minute in the quarterfinals when the score was 1: 2 against Swansea City . Moran, who had been a regular penalty taker since 1960 and had converted eight of ten penalties, failed to score four times in a row when he missed the cup. During the 1964/65 season he lost the regular place to Gerry Byrne and was often not considered for the starting XI. In the two semi-final games against Inter Milan in the European Cup , which ended with the elimination of the Reds, he was represented again before the meanwhile indisposed Byrne returned to the victorious final in the FA Cup and Moran was therefore not part of the cup winning team at Wembley . His active career came to an end, but the club made it possible for him to transition to the coaching staff.

During the 1966/67 season Shankly Moran informed that there was a change offer from another club for Moran. On the occasion of this offer, Shankly then offered him a place among his cotrainers . Moran accepted the offer and thus became a member of the so-called Boot Room , which in addition to Shankly also included Bob Paisley , Reuben Bennett , Tom Saunders and Joe Fagan . In the more than three decades that followed, he was known and notorious as a sensitive contact person for the players in the event of problems and as a “discipline fanatic”. He also coached the first team twice as an interim coach. He initially followed Kenny Dalglish in 1991 after his surprising resignation. Liverpool were even leaders at the time and Moran took on the ungrateful role of looking after an insecure team that ultimately not only lost 3-1 at Luton Town , but also the following two cup games. It was followed by three wins under Moran's direction, most recently a 7-1 away in the later relegated Derby County . Two defeats at Easter against Queens Park Rangers and Southampton FC provided a kind of preliminary decision in the title fight in favor of Arsenal FC and Moran only remained in office for two more matches. Before the end of the 1990/91 season the former captain and now as a coach in was Glasgow Rangers active Graeme Souness introduced as the new main person responsible. When Souness was recovering from bypass surgery in 1992, Moran stood in for him again. He was on the line in the last seven league games and the semi-final replay against Portsmouth FC before the convalescent returned to the bench for the FA Cup final.

In 1998 Moran retired after 46 years with Liverpool and in his honor a charity match against Celtic Glasgow was organized on May 16, 2000 .

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Individual references / footnotes

  1. ↑ barryhugmansfootballers.com: Profile Ronnie Moran , accessed June 25, 2020
  2. ^ Ronnie Moran: Former Liverpool captain and coach dies, aged 83. In: BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation , March 22, 2017, accessed March 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Player Profile: Ronnie Moran. In: LFCHistory.net. Retrieved March 22, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Moran, Ronnie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moran, Ronald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Crosby , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH 22nd March 2017
Place of death Crosby , England , UK