Liverpool mourn the former top striker. © LFC / Social Media
The English soccer world champion and Liverpool legend Roger Hunt is dead.
28. September 2021
Author: dpa / sn
The former star striker died on Monday evening after a long illness at the age of 83, as the club announced on Tuesday. Hunt won with the Reds, for whom he played from 1958 to 1969, under the legendary team manager Bill Shankly twice the championship and once the FA Cup.
With 285 goals in 492 games, Hunt was the Premier League club’s top scorer for a long time until he was overtaken by Ian Rush in 1992. Hunt’s 244 league goals are still a club record. One of his greatest triumphs was winning the world title on home soil in 1966. Hunt contributed three goals.
Just a few days ago, Jimmy Greaves, another 1966 World Cup hero, died.
