EXCLUSIVE: Ex-Liverpool keeper on working for Jurgen Klopp, being stunned by Alisson, and Harvey Elliott's future

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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News, Soccer, Sports, Sports News

4.4 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dan Atherton left Liverpool last summer having trained with the first-team and gone on the pre-season tour to the US just 12 months prior to that. And in this exclusive chat with Blood Red’s Matt Addison, the young goalkeeper reveals the struggle of trying to find a new club in the middle of a pandemic, and how TikTok is helping him achieve his future career aims. As a lifelong Liverpool fan, Dan explains what it was like to train with Alisson Becker, Jordan Henderson, Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Co under the guidance of Jurgen Klopp, Pep Lijnders and goalkeeping coach John Achterberg. He also details what it was like to go on a pre-season tour to Boston and New York with the first team in 2019 - having weeks earlier earlier come on as a substitute as an outfield player against Tranmere after Paul Glatzel got injured! - and gives us the lowdown on some of the young starlets he played with during his Academy days, including Curtis Jones, Harvey Elliott and Neco Williams.Watch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCSign up for our Liverpool FC newsletters: https://data.reachplc.com/210734476470860Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:08.0	Hello and welcome to the latest Blood Red Podcast from the Liverpool Echo.
0:12.0	I'm Matt Addison and this is an exclusive interview that I did with former Liverpool
0:16.5	goalkeeper Dan Averton, who left the Reds last summer having signed for them at the age of 12.
0:21.6	Dan trained regularly with the first team squad for about six years
0:25.1	with Allison Adrian Simon Minule and more. He was part of the pre-season tour in 2019 in details what it was like to
0:32.4	travel to America with the senior team
0:34.7	as well as why he found it tough at times mentally during training.
0:38.3	He's really open and honest about what going into Melwood was like and lift the lid on
0:42.4	young clock, goal-deep in coach John
0:44.4	actorberg and assistant manager pet blinders and what they're like behind the scenes too.
0:49.9	This is insight from someone who's only just left the Liverpool Changing Room where he was rubbing shoulders on a daily basis with Mohammed Sala, Virgil Van Dyke and Jordan Henderson.
0:58.5	There's also anecdotes from the time he was thrown on up front alongside Divo Riggi as the open clock ran out of
1:04.3	substitutes. Why Tiktop now plays such a big part in his life and lowdown on two players,
1:09.9	Harvey Elliot and Curtis Jones as well as others, players that he came through the Academy system alongside.
1:15.6	I promise you it's an absolutely brilliant listen.
1:18.1	There's loads more in there as well that I've not mentioned and as you'll hear me say at the end
1:22.4	I could have
1:22.9	chatted within for hours. This is what former Liverpool goalkeeper Dan
1:26.6	Alerton had to say. Enjoy. The Blood Red Podcast from the
1:30.4	Liverpool Echo. So Danny thanks so much for joining me on the
1:35.2	the Blood Red podcast hope you you're doing okay and hope things are all good with you.
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