{"id":7873,"date":"2026-06-09T17:32:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7873"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:32:56","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-74-dietmar-hamann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=7873","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool&#8217;s Greatest &#8211; No.74: Dietmar Hamann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Years: <\/strong>1999-2006<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Appearances: <\/strong>283<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Goals: <\/strong>11<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Trophies: <\/strong>League Cup (2001, 2003), FA Cup (2001, 2006), UEFA Cup (2001), UEFA Super Cup (2001, 2005), Champions League (2005)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dietmar Hamann was a reassuring presence in the middle of the pitch for Liverpool across seven years. <\/p>\n<p>With his supreme game intelligence, the enforcer repeatedly snuffed out attacks from the opposition and got his team on the front foot.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamann also possessed the ability to thunder strikes in from distance, as evidenced in most of the 11 goals he scored.<\/p>\n<p>Such qualities made him an important figure for manager <strong><u>Gerard Houllier<\/u><\/strong>who had moved to sign the German from Newcastle United in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>In his second season as a Red, Hamann appeared 53 times in the treble-winning journey of 2000-01 \u2013 including starts in the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup finals.<\/p>\n<p>Hamann\u2019s importance to the team remained when <strong><u>Rafael Benitez<\/u><\/strong>  took command of the dugout in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>His decision to introduce Hamann at half-time of the 2005 Champions League final with AC Milan was a masterstroke.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years: 1999-2006 Appearances: 283 Goals: 11 Trophies: League Cup (2001, 2003), FA Cup (2001, 2006),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}