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It would be hard on anyone's ego, and Gerrard has often been accused of egotism, because that's how people usually interpret his on-field persona. But if he really did have a giant ego, he would have left Liverpool for a stronger team years ago, instead of staying on and sacrificing his own chances of success to increase theirs. Gairah dibutuhkan di usia muda, masa-masa ketika seorang pemain bisa hidup dari kecintaannya terhadap sepak bola dan memperdalamnya melalui disiplin dan dedikasi. Para pemain berbakat yang bersedia mengorbankan segalanyalah yang akan menjadi pemain seperti Michael Owen, Jamie Carragher, dan John Terry." Kekurangannya, kamu kurang bisa baca buku ini jika kamu kurang tertarik dengan sepak bola, karena banyak sekali istilah dan kejadian-kejadian yang umumnya memang sudah dihafal Kopites di luar kepala. Lalu, desain sampulnya lebih menarik versi aslinya menurut saya karena foto Stevie terlihat ramah. Entah mengapa yang edisi terjemahan ini memakai wajah Stevie yang divektorkan. Sebagai seorang kapten. Kita dapat melihat dan sedikit merasakan beban yang ditaruh di pundak Gerrard. Di rehat musim panas. Selain menyemangati pemain andalan, semua pemain di tim, dia diberikan "tugas" buat merayu, -tidak kesannya terlalu rendah- mengajak pemain incaran Liverpool untuk bergabung. Memang tidak mudah. Tapi tentu tidak ada usaha yang tidak berarti. Every Liverpool-fan will love his bashing of Diouff (who in his right mind spits on the Celtic supporters? Disgraceful), and his questions about the mentality of a player like Mario Balotelli is something every football fan has had over the years.

At first, Benítez tried to persuade Gerrard to play more with the head and less with the heart. By his second season, he had decided it would be better to find a way of working with the player's nature rather than against it. So he started playing him out on the right. Gerrard considered this a demotion, and every so often he would tell the media that he preferred to play in the middle. Benítez argued that the truth was on the field. The move away from the centre coincided with Gerrard playing the best football of his career. League titles are won by teams, not individuals. The United boys didn't outscore Gerrard on medals 50-0 because they were better players. It was because there were six of them and only one of him. 'Anxiety has been Gerrard's constant companion' Stevie mencintai dengan intens. Dia tidak ragu-ragu memperjuangkan dan berjuang untuk cintanya. Yang pertama dibahas tentu saja sepak bola. Si kecil Stevie dibesarkan di keluarga yang menggilai LFC sampai hidup dan mati (sepupu Stevie jadi orang termuda yang tewas pada tragedi Hillsborough) sehingga nadinya sudah dari dulu mengaliri merahnya Liverpool. Ketika ia gagal masuk sekolah sepak bola tempat Owen dan Carragher belajar hingga nyaris transfer ke Chelsea, sang ayah selalu menyemangati. Kata-kata dari ayahnya inilah yang membuat semangat Stevie terus terpacu. More importantly, I also found the tone to be slightly ill-judged in places. Call me old fashioned, but I don’t see the need to include profanity, especially when many kids will likely read the book. It’s been while since I read the 2007 book, but my recollection of the difference can be summed up in contrasting anecdotes. The story about the garden fork and Gerrard’s toe in the first book was genuinely dramatic. The story in this book about Gerrard getting cut in a sensitive area away at Bournemouth and the playing the derby game with four stitches was overdone. Namun ada satu hal yang ia tak mau lakukan demi klub--hak citra. Memang sudah kewajibannya tampil di iklan yang menjadi sponsor LFC, namun kalau menyangkut soal hak citra, ia tak akan mengambilnya. Baginya, sekalinya kau terikat pada LFC, jiwa ragamulah untuknya, tanpa pamrih. Itu sudah jadi kewajibanmu, dan bonus memang menarik, tapi ia tak mau akhirnya dikenal sebagai bintang iklan. Namun, Stevie memberi pengecualian pada Messi dan Christiano Ronaldo.

The highs in the books comes, when he describes the feelings and doubts that goes through his mind while he has his ups and downs throughout his career. Rather than try to fit the hurricane into his defensive system, Benítez turned it loose on opposing defences.

Makélélé was the guy who gets the ball and gives it to someone with more ability. Gerrard was the guy with more ability. He wasn't Liverpool's Makélélé; he was their Zidane. Yak, rekor menulis ulasan terpanjang saya pribadi terpecahkan berkat buku ini. Dan tentu saja ini belum menggambarkan betapa bagusnya buku ini terutama bagi Kopites. Setelah membacanya, alih-alih kaget, saya malah semakin yakin bahwa kepribadian Stevie dan determinasinya adalah kunci mengapa ia dicintai pendukung Liverpool dari berbagai penjuru dunia, melewati batas usia dan gender. Dan betapa ia seorang pemain hebat yang hanya bermodalkan cinta dan keinginan kuat. Ditulis bersama Donald McRae, Stevie menuangkan isi hatinya yang terdalam di "Kisah Saya". Bertahun-tahun mendapati pasang surut tim kebanggaannya, pemilik nomor 8 ini tentu mengenal lebih baik isi perut tim (Liverpool dan timnas Inggris) ketimbang pundit maupun analis di mana pun. Membaca buku ini di satu sisi menghadirkan sisi emosional, sekaligus rasa penasaran akan apa yang terjadi di balik layar skuad bersimbol burung Liver merah itu. Alonso's departure that summer effectively lobotomised the team. A year later, Benítez followed him out the door. Liverpool got a new manager, Roy Hodgson, an English football traditionalist who returned Gerrard to what English football had always considered his proper position, in central midfield. The team collapsed. Five stars for the player and the subject matter. Three and a bit for the ghost writer, who is apparently an Arsenal supporter.

Gerrard must also figure out how to protect that defence. Villa have not been consistently strong in central midfield. Douglas Luiz, a fine ball winner and passer when on form, has shown signs of wear after a summer in which he had no respite owing to engagements with Brazil. Marvelous Nakamba is dynamic but not much of a passer. John McGinn can be brilliant but has not performed to his best regularly. Ramsey is an emerging talent, Ashley Young a dwindling one who is certainly useful but cannot be expected to control central midfield in the Premier League very often. Zidane's praise inadvertently betrayed that he actually knew very little about Gerrard. Sure, Gerrard ran more than most players and had a dynamic energy, but he was not the "engine room" in the way that Makélélé was at Real Madrid. In fact, it's difficult to think of a midfielder less like Gerrard than Makélélé.

Tanyakan pada dirimu sendiri, 'Akankah memenangkan dua atau tiga piala bersama Liverpool lebih berarti bagi saya dibandingkan dua atau bahkan tiga kali lipat dari jumlah itu, tapi saya bermain untuk Chelsea?'" Refreshingly honest, Gerrard takes us on his seventeen-year journey at his boyhood club; the defining highs and lows of his career, the triumphs and heartbreaks, and his emotional goodbye to Liverpool Football Club. The prologue broke my heart. It truly did. He writes about the moments immediately after the Chelsea game in which he slipped - in which we lost the title-that-should-have-been-ours - and it is so raw with emotion that it hurts to read. As such seasoned readers may well be put off by the style of this book. It is not particularly welcoming, and you almost need to skim the words rather than trying to take them all in as individual sentences. Certainly if you try to read the book intricately it will become a struggle, because in all honesty it just doesn't flow that well from sentence to sentence. Then again this is something that should be expected and persevered with. If you want a literary masterpiece, don't buy the autobiography of a professional footballer. Gerrard enjoyed Atlético Madrid’s Champions League win over Chelsea in 2013. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/Guardian 8) He likes Haribo and emoticonsGerrard generally avoids putting the literary boot into too many people – although it soon becomes clear Martin Atkinson and Stuart Pearce top the list of those he dislikes most. The referee was in charge of Gerrard’s most infamous club games – The Slip against Chelsea as well as The Stamp, when he rightly sent off Gerrard for stamping on Manchester United’s Ander Herrera just 38 seconds after the Liverpool captain stepped on to the pitch.