My Story

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Hal menyenangkan lainnya adalah lewat buku ini, saya menyadari, pesepakbola juga adalah manusia biasa. Mereka kerap tidak tahan akan tekanan, emosi, dan perlakuan negatif dari pihak luar. Gerrard menceritakan banyak inside story di dalam buku ini, momen demi momen terbaik dalam karir panjangnya di sepakbola, dan menegaskan sikap jangan jumawa sebelum meraih gelar tertinggi, dan memberikan prestasi bagi klub dan tim nasional. Playing against West Ham in December, he took a shot at goal and felt a pain in his hamstring: four weeks out. The following week, Liverpool went to Tottenham without him and won 5-0. It was their best performance in years. Do you like to read biographies and would you like to know more about one of the best players in English football?

As I said the book got repetitive. Having the songs sang on the terraces repeated over and over got tiresome as did being given a commentary on the matches. I understand needing to tell how goals and significant moments are created but at times it was like a literary version of MOTD. So what about you non Liverpool fans who nonetheless like football on a broader scale and can tolerate reading the thoughts of a rival player? To be honest you're not going to like every part of the book. If you're a Manchester United fan, you may wish to just skip certain parts altogether. Because let's be honest, no amount of honest opinion is going to make you enjoy reading about Liverpool's fifth Champions League win in Istanbul. It just isn't. Di mata Gerrard, kita juga akan melihat, bahwa bermain di liga Premier bukanlah hal yang mudah. Bakat, kemampuan teknis, dan banyak hal lainnya yang saling bertautan, menentukan si pemain mampu bersaing di liga paling kompetitif sedunia. Belum lagi masalah dengan pers lokal yang doyan menguliti pemain. Kemampuan fisik itu yang dirasakan Gerrard, merupakan salah satu prasyarat seorang pemain mampu berkompetisi di EPL. Bek tangguh EPL bukan masalah mudah bagi seorang Aspas, Ballotelli, misalnya. 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.There really are some great football biographies out there, to name a few I'd go with Paul Gascoigne's Gazza : My Story (which really is extraordinary with it's describtion of Gazza's trouble with alcohol and a struggle against a fragile psyche) or A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke (which is more of a story about a man battling [and losing to] depression in the macho-world of modern football). I also enjoyed Alex Ferguson's autobiography (and this comes from a diehard fan of Liverpool FC). Stevie datang di masa pubertas saya. Saya yang tak tertarik dengan cowok nyata dan pacaran menjadikan Stevie sebagai cinta pertama. Nyatanya, saya memang terpukau pada pandangan pertama sejak melihatnya bermain untuk timnas Inggris. Literally at first sight, pas sekali ketika kamera menyorotnya menengok ke belakang, nomor dan nama di punggungnya terlihat. Sejak itu, saya mencari klub tempat ia bermain dan mulai menonton Liga Primer. Lagi-lagi, saya terpana. Ada sesuatu di klub ini yang membuat saya merinding tiap mendengar chant You'll Never Walk Alone meski hanya lewat televisi. Dan setelah mempelajari bahwa Stevie adalah pemain loyal di sana, saya sulit untuk tidak jatuh cinta pada keduanya. Ada satu adegan di mana Stevie dilimpahkan kebahagian setelah kesialan datang bertubi-tubi padanya. Tapi bagian itu terlalu indah untuk dibuat spoiler di sini.

I got really nostalgic at times, and amazed. I laughed a lot and cried a little. I'm not ashamed to admit this. This is what football can do. It can make grown men get really emotional. And a few players have the ability to enhance this even more. None more so than Steven Gerrard. With his talent and determination. His unbelievable goals. His leadership. Countless Captain Fantastic performances. And most of all with his passion and love for the game and for Liverpool Football Club. 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' But the first thing Gerrard must do is repair Villa’s defence. That was a job Smith accomplished in his first season after promotion, and the signing of Emi Martínez brought even more solidity last season. But those gains have somehow got lost this season, with only Newcastle and Norwich conceding more goals. Curiously, Villa even became more vulnerable at set pieces despite hiring a specialist coach in the summer. Gerrard will be bringing a new one. There are a couple of inexplicable errors. For example, in the section on the World Cup Group, Costa Rica is described as a “tiny island.” Of course, it’s not an island at all. It’s located on the Central American isthmus, between Nicaragua and Panama, as one look at Google Maps could have told the author.It turned out Ferguson hadn't spoken as freely as everyone had hoped, since he hasn't really retired. As a director at Manchester United, he's the power behind David Moyes's throne, and the book had been vetted by the club prior to publication. It therefore elided certain mysteries, such as why Ferguson chose Moyes as his successor, rather than José Mourinho, with whom he had always appeared to be so friendly.