John Achterberg: Spending 15 years with Liverpool was a dream come true
Feb 26, 2025
Former Liverpool goalkeeper John Achterberg looks back on the 15 years he spent with the Merseyside giants and the great keepers he worked with and developed. Now with Al-Nassr, Achterberg admits great pride at having an influence on the careers of the likes of Alisson Becker and Pepe Reina.
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we've been living in since so long all
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the fields are gone fell stop me on the
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street last night said everything's all
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right roller coaster make it
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through um I think uh yeah being 15
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years at a club like Liverpool is a is a
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kind of dream for a lot of people now
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you know it's a goal coach you want to
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achieve the highest level and obviously
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I got that chance to to be like that and
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you know you have to be good at your job
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as well to stay that long in the club
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and
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um I I I enjoy every day working with
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goalkeepers I want to create good
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goalkeepers I want to help all the
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goalkeepers to make a career and and I
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try to uh be always on the front foot as
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well as a coach to to help develop and
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look at what is needed for the games and
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stuff like that and I did a lot of
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recruiting on goalkeepers looking at all
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games who is around in in the in all the
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major competitions if there's new talent
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coming and stuff like that to be up to
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date with it um but yeah it's a great
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experience to be there you know you have
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a lot of highs and lows in the start we
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had more lows because of uh the club was
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not Financial in a good place then they
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got taken over by the
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fanway and then everything improved and
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the team improved and then
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obviously uh we had one really good year
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with brenon roges when we had like St
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with Suarez and coutinho and and uh
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Sterling on the
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front uh so we had a really good front
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four then and we were close to win the
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league then and yeah then the manager
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got Chang to club and from that moment
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obviously everything improved in the
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whole club in terms of uh the supporters
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got more belief and they became more
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behind the team and stay with the team
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and yeah the the way Club made the team
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play football that improved the whole uh
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atmosphere around the club and then
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obviously we had good success with
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winning trophies we probably could have
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won more trophies as well but uh we won
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nearly every trophy once so that was
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cool but for me it's about the
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developing goalkeepers more and and it's
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it's good to see Keepers like Allison
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and and Kella and they have Yos now and
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aie Davis and Marcelo they all be and
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and Camille Garo we saw sold and they
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had Danny W and Peter galaxi so all good
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goali who made a good career and for
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sure and shamal George for in so we had
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loads of goalkeepers who make a good
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career and and that is more uh more
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enjoyable for me that the goalies play
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well and do well obviously I work with
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many goalies at Liverpool Raina was a
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really good goalie and Simon came in who
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who who was a decent goalie and Brad
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Jones we work with and saw dony was
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there so many goalies I work with so it
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was all good and and it's good that most
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of them make a really good career and
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that is the most enjoyable
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really time
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