Rejected player wins everything

Andy Robertson was told he could not be used as a football player. Now he is one of the world’s best left backs.
Your coach is always right. Except when he is not right…
Not all coaches see the same thing when they look at a football player.
Maybe you have tried it yourself? That a coach did not see everything you could as a player?
But do not give up, but believe in yourself – and find your own path in football.
It may well be the coach who is wrong.
Absolutely wrong. Andy Robertson from Liverpool has tried it.
He is considered one of the world’s best left-backs and has within 12 months won first the Champions League, then the World Cup for club teams, and finally the English championship with Liverpool FC.
But that success was not at all in the making just a few years ago.
As a U15 player, Andy was rejected by the big Scottish club Celtic, which he had otherwise been a huge fan of all his childhood – just like his father.
Instead, he played for a much smaller Glasgow club, Queens Park, and at one point worked in a supermarket where he sat at the checkout while adjusting to the fact that his dream of becoming a professional footballer would never come true.
As an 18-year-old, he made his debut for Queens Park in the fourth-best Scottish division. Not a particularly high level, to say the least.
Dundee United in the top division, however, caught sight of him, and after a season there, he switched to Hull City, the bottom team in the Premier League. In the first season, Hull was relegated after conceding a record number of goals – so it did not look like any success for the left-back.
The following year, they were promoted again, and Liverpool caught sight of the energetic, distinguished fighting defender who could uproot the grass as he ran back and forth along the sideline and participated in both defense and attack. Jürgen Klopp liked what he saw in Robertson – and made the largely unknown left-back a world star. And it went fast. In his first season, Robertson – with Liverpool- went all the way to the Champions League final, but lost.
In his second season as ‘Red,’ Robertson, won the same final with his teammates.
In his third season as a Liverpool player, Robertson & Co. won the title of the world’s best club team, and in June 2020 they won the club’s first English championship for 30 years.
It is the substance that legends are made of.
Andy Robertson is now captain of Scotland, the country where Celtic did not believe he could become a footballer at all.

23 June, 2023

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