Liverpool No 8 shirt was handed to newly unveiled Naby Keita by club icon Steven Gerrard today 27, June 2018. The midfielder is set to wear the famous No 8 jersey previously won by Gerrard, Naby Keita will be unveiled as a Reds player next week when pre-season training starts and the 23-year-old will be the first player to wear the number 8 since May 2015.
Keita vows: 'I'll try to do as much as he did – that's my motivation:
Naby Keita has recalled the moment he was given his Liverpool No 8 shirt from former incumbent and club icon Steven Gerrard and vowed: 'I'll try to do as much as he did – that's my motivation.'
Keita will be officially unveiled as a Liverpool player next week following his pre-agreement with RB Leipzig last summer.
The 23-year-old will become the first player to wear the iconic shirt since May 2015, when Gerrard left for MLS side LA Galaxy.
Keita will become the 43rd person to wear the No 8 shirt in Liverpool's history.
He will take the jersey that has been vacated since Gerrard left for LA Galaxy in 2015
Keita will be unveiled as a Liverpool player next week following his move from RB Leipzig
Gerrard took ownership of the number in 2004-05, the same year he lifted the Champions League trophy in Istanbul. Previously he had worn No 17 since bursting onto the scene in 1998.
Before Gerrard, the No 8 jersey belonged to former England striker Emile Heskey from 1999 to 2004.
WHO IS NABY KEITA?
Keita was born in 1995 in Conakry, the capital city of Guinea.
He played for his hometown club Horoya from the age of nine before leaving for FC Istres in France in 2012.
Keita scored 11 goals in 23 games in his first season as a professional footballer in Ligue 2, earning a move to Red Bull Salzburg.
He spent two years there, striking a friendship with Sadio Mane in the process, before joining sister-club RB Leipzig in June 2016.
It was there he began to shine and became one of the most sought after midfielders in Europe.
A dynamic, box-to-box central midfielder, Keita scored 17 goals in 71 appearances in Germany.
In August 2017, it was announced a deal had been struck for Keita to join Liverpool in July 2018.
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