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Daniel Agger
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Position: Defender
Date of Birth: 12/12/1984
Height: 6'3
Weight: 12st 6
1st team games: 53
1st team goals: 4
International caps: 18
International goals: 2
Former clubs: Brondby
Birth Place: Hvidovre, Denmark
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Danish centre back Daniel Agger was signed from Brondby IF in January 2006 for a fee of £5.8m.
For a centre back he is exceptionally comfortable with the ball a his feet, something that has led to comparisons with Liverpool legend and fellow centre back Alan Hansen.
Agger made his professional breakthrough for Brondby in 2004 having been with the club since the age of 12, and quickly developed into a classy defender with maturity beyond his years.
In December 2004 he won the Spillerforeningen Talent of the Year award (the Danish equivalent of PFA Young Player of the Year), a feat he repeated the following year.
Agger ended his debut season as a double winner, and it was no surprise when Agger won his first cap in a friendly with Finland in June 2005. His performance a few months later against England, where he kept Wayne Rooney quiet for the whole game, alerted clubs across Europe to his talents, and a move abroad seemed inevitable.
After moving to Liverpool Denmark's most expensive export made his debut against Birmingham on February 1st, though injury meant his first season on Merseyside was spent largely on the sidelines.
The 2006-07 campaign saw Agger become a regular feature in the starting XI, a 35 yard screamer against West Ham certainly doing his case for first team football no harm, and he won the PFA Player of the Month award for September. The high point of his first full campaign came in the Champions League semi-final second leg versus Chelsea, when his left-foot strike levelled the tie which Liverpool went on to win on penalties. Agger went on to play the full 90 minutes in the final against AC Milan.
A broken metatarsal kept Agger out for most of the 07/08 season, but he made his return to the first team in Liverpool’s first pre-season friendly of the 08/09 season against Tranmere.
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