Jimmy Carager’s interview: One club award from Athletic Club for Livepool Service is a special honor from a unique club | Football news

Jimmy Karager will be honored with the One Club Award by Athletic Club and will go to Bilbao to collect the award. He is granted to the player from any team that showed a real contact with their club, and that aspect is represented.

Caragir, who participated in 737 matches with Liverpool during his long career, will win the prize in Athletic game at home against Girona on September 24. Talk to Carraagher in Anfield about honor, his pride in this unexpected prize is clear.

“People talk about medals and awards, but one of my biggest accomplishments is playing in a club of Liverpool throughout my career,” he says, he says Sky Sports. “This is something I am proud of and that it is recognized in this way by another club.

Once Club is an unusual football award in those sports players from other teams. Among the Paulo Maldini winners from AC MILAN, which Caragra has faced in the 2005 and 2007 European Champions League. The Women Award was presented in 2019.

for him Sky Sports Colleague Gary Neville is qualified after he was a single club man for Manchester United. Will Caragar recommend it after that? “I will still have a curfew for 10 years before he could go to Spain after he did it to Valencia,” he said jokingly.

“But I saw Maldini listed on the list. Wow. It is a special football club, right? It is clear that I was aware of the club first in the 1980s when I was a child and left Howardal Everton to go and manage sports. How do they wander in things, he is unique.”

Basque Sports Policy

While other clubs import players from all over the world, Athletic was steadfast in adhering to their policy of choosing only the Basque players connected to the region. In itself, it’s great. But more than that because it did not prevent them from prosperity.

Along with Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​Athletic is one of only three clubs that have been a permanent presence in Laliga and this season returns to the Champions League. “You cannot believe the success they have achieved,” says carrier.

“I think anyone looks from afar, even if you are not a supporter of sports, you see it and think, Wow, this is special, imagine if my club is like this? We all love the transportation operations, of course we do that, but it is special for the club to do so.”

“I will not leave Liverpool”

Was there ever that the possibility of leaving Liverpool? He says, “I have never gone.” “When I was younger, I would lend if I needed it but I was playing for the first team in 18 or 19.” What about in the end? Season elsewhere, maybe?

He admits that his great friend Stephen Gerrard did so completely, as he went out to Los Angeles. But it was not for him. “I think in my position, it could have been strange. It would be really strange to lose it only for an additional 12 months,” he explains.

“I think that the longer you are inside the club, the more you are aware of the status of one club.

Loss of this connection

Other Liverpool graduates have made different options. Former teammates, Steve McManaman, and Michael Owen Liverpool, left in their prime to make this transfer to Real Madrid. Only this summer, Trint Alexander Arnold made the same key.

Caragir resisted any temptation to collect his prizes in Athletic’s Home against Real Madrid – not at least because it decreases in 2026, and the award for 2025. But while it is respectful that everyone has the right to choose, but it is still disappointed.

“This is one of the reasons why I spoke eagerly by Trent Alexander-Arnold.

Perhaps this is the main point. McManaman won the Champions League twice with Real Madrid and has no reason to regret his decision. It may be the same for Alexander Arnold. But while these players earn a experience, they also lose something.

“It was always the way of Liverpool for me. I didn’t test those other things, and know how other clubs worked. I didn’t have it, and I assumed it was good to have these different experiences. But I am happy because I did what I did, to be honest.

“It is unfortunate because they are great players, but some people do not have the same relationship with one club, really. Or something happens and that is to do. It will be interesting how supporters interact when Trent returns with Real Madrid.”

Watching Carragher makes its way through the crowds in ANFILD, with taking pictures, and sharing hugs and shaking hands with supporters and employees, you realize what the precious relationship is. Arni’s strange opening aside, this is his home.

“I do not say that I am worldly loved by every Liverpool supporter just because I stayed here throughout my career,” he said. But there are not many of us who played our entire career here. “There is life after football to look at it.

The link with the club for life

“When you are an old football man, you are still a young man in life. I know more now. When you enter in the mid -thirties, you are still a young villa, but you see that you are a really old football man. There is a long life in front of you.

“For this reason, when I sometimes think about making options to leave clubs, I think you should think of a legacy. Listen, get the maximum benefit from your career is more important than anything.

“But I sometimes think that there are some movements that players make where I think, you have been retiring for a long time. Sometimes you think well in a specific club, and perhaps being a man from one club, I think in some respects is more than achievement, really.

“Look at Stevi. I mean that he could go to Chelsea and could have won a lot of awards, there is no doubt about it. But when he looked back in his career, do people look at him in the same way? I don’t think that.

Whether there will be a lot in the Caragraph in the future, it is still seen. But the rules of profit and sustainability certainly do not help. Clubs are actively encouraged to move to graduates for pure profit. “This only does not feel right for me, this situation.”

The result can be less and less than the One CLUB award. “It will be more difficult,” Caragir agrees. We cherish them while you can, as the athlete does. Because football loses something without them. Football players also lose something.