{"id":480856,"date":"2026-06-07T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480856\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:11:09","slug":"liverpools-greatest-no-81-dirk-kuyt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/480856\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool’s Greatest – No.81: Dirk Kuyt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dirk Kuyt endeared himself to Liverpool supporters with an incredible work ethic and a knack of producing when it mattered most.<\/p>\n

Both traits meant the Dutchman was a much-loved figure throughout his six-season stay at the club.<\/p>\n

A highlights reel that includes many contributions on grand stages will leave a fair number of his peers envious. <\/p>\n

The mop-haired Dutchman \u2013 who joined from Feyenoord in the summer of 2006 \u2013 produced goals in finals, derbies and European crunch affairs. <\/p>\n

He arrived as a striker and hit the ground running by scoring 14 times in a debut season that ended with an appearance in the Champions League final. <\/p>\n

Kuyt scored a consolation in that defeat by AC Milan in Athens, having dispatched the decisive penalty in a shootout with Chelsea to secure the Reds\u2019 spot in the showpiece.<\/p>\n

The No.18 was moved to the right flank by Rafael Benitez<\/a> but was still just as effective and willing to put in the hard yards from there.<\/p>\n

He was the hero in a heated Merseyside derby in October 2007, putting two spot-kicks \u2013 the second one last-gasp \u2013 past Everton to claim victory at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dirk Kuyt endeared himself to Liverpool supporters with an incredible work ethic and a knack of producing when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21122,21123,7349,85,46,21118,21112,21124,21126,21125,21113,21117,21116,21111,21121,21114,21119,105,21115,21120],"class_list":["post-480856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}