Miloš KERKEZ: 2025/26

First Name: Miloš
Surname: Kerkez
Squad Number: 6
Position: Defender
D.O.B.: 07.11.2003.
Town of Birth: Vrbas
Country of Birth: Serbia
Nationality: Hungarian

No.6: Once Beloved, Once Broken — Now Searching for Meaning Again

No.6 at Liverpool was never flashy.

But that’s exactly why it holds something deeper.

It hides pain. It remembers promise.

And it waits — for someone to make it whole again.

Long before the modern game, we had Ron Yeats —

Liverpool’s first great captain under Shankly.

The colossus. The foundation. The man the boss told us to walk around.

Then came Emlyn Hughes —

wild, passionate, untamed.

He didn’t just wear No.6. He made it feel alive.

Years later, we loved it through John Arne Riise.

Left-footed fury. Unstoppable runs.

A hammer from Norway with a heart of iron.

But his final act?

An own goal in a Champions League semifinal.

The number was silenced — not by failure, but by heartbreak.

Fábio Aurélio followed.

Not a warrior — a technician.

Graceful. Deadly with a free-kick.

He scored at Old Trafford with elegance.

But more than his goals, we remember…

how often we missed him when he was injured.

Then came Dejan Lovren.

Not perfect. Never adored.

But he stayed. He fought. He defended.

And when it mattered — he stood tall.

Because sometimes, the shirt belongs not to the best…

but to the ones who endure.

Then came Thiago Alcântara.

A footballing poet.

We thought No.6 would dance again.

But the body betrayed the script.

He didn’t fail.

He just ran out of pages.

Now, it’s Milos Kerkez who wears it.

No history yet. No weight on his name.

But one thing is clear:

he dares to wear it.

Because at Liverpool, No.6 isn’t about spotlight.

It’s about showing up —

even when you don’t know if the ending will be yours.

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Born in 2003. I started Uni in 2003

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So you’re saying you could have been his dad driving him around in a lambo?

A year later for me. But I did defer.

I deffered for 2 years :sweat_smile:

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His pace allows our left sided forward to be in more central positions. Looked damn impressive.

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