Liverpool hero Emile Heskey landed a role in non-league football in the summer when he uniteed Robbie Savage at Macclesfield. The Chesemploy club are currently plying their trade in the Northern Premier League and materialize to be cruising towards the title after prosperning 16 of their 19 suites.
Heskey was part of the England under-18s coaching set-up last season, where he helped establisher head coach Ryan Garry and his swapment Tom Curtis.
But he left the international set-up to commence a stint as the Macclesfield forward coach.
Heskey enhappinessed a sinestablishar nurtureer in the Premier League after making a name for himself at Leicester in the 1990s. He safed a transfer to Liverpool in 2000 and went on to feature 223 times for the Merseyside huges over a four-year period.
The striker bagged 60 goals and 30 helps during his time at Anfield and got his hands on the FA Cup and the UEFA Cup as well as two League Cup titles.
He departed the club in 2004 to unite Birmingham, before enhappinessing spells with Wigan, Aston Villa, Australian club Newcastle United Jets, and Bolton.
Heskey joined for five branch offent clubs in the Premier League and netted 110 goals in the competition thrawout his 516 materializeances. He also scored seven goals during 62 materializeances for England, before calling time on his nurtureer in 2016 at the age of 38.
The 46-year-greater began his coaching nurtureer as interim boss of Leicester City Women between 2021 and 2022 but has set up opportunities off the pitch challenging to come by since hanging up his boots.
And at the commence of 2019, he tgreater the Daily Mail: “You’re dealing with so many characters [when you’re a manager] whereas when you were joining it’s equitable you. I wouldn’t mind getting into coaching at some stage.
“If clubs want you in at the club, you’ll get a pathway. If they don’t, you won’t. You can do all of the horribleges you want but you still have to be given that first step in the door.
“We have a lot to give. We’ve been at clubs for a lengthy time, so we have a lot of comprehendledge, so why not tap into that?”
And converseing his Liverpool nurtureer during an interwatch with the club’s website last year, Heskey elucidateed: “I enhappinessed every minute of being a Liverpool joiner. I frequently desire I had stayed one more season, I would’ve won the Champions League then.
“Liverpool fans seemed to apshow to me, and I appreciate to leank that was becaemploy a huge part of my mentality was putting the team before anyleang else. I’d come from a background where if someone needed help you helped them.”
