'Steven Gerrard called me his Liverpool captain - now I want to knock them out of the FA Cup'

Plymouth Argyle defender Victor Palsson erstwhile captained Steven Gerrard successful Liverpool's reserves squad and volition beryllium retired to daze his aged nine successful a imagination FA Cup clash connected Sunday

Victor Palsson has played successful 10 antithetic countries for 13 clubs and speaks 5 languages fluently.

So erstwhile Plymouth Argyle’s Icelandic defender meets his erstwhile employers Liverpool successful the FA Cup 4th circular connected Sunday, determination volition beryllium thing mislaid successful translation - particularly if the lingo is English, German, Danish, Swedish oregon his autochthonal tongue.

Palsson, 33, whitethorn not beryllium a sanction connected the lips of the Kop masses due to the fact that helium near Anfield without making a first-team appearance.

But helium was bully capable to skipper Liverpool’s reserves astatine 18, and helium volition ever treasure the representation of being Steven Gerrard’s skipper erstwhile the England legend, preoccupied with ineligible affairs, turned retired for the stiffs to support lucifer fitness.

Palsson was not successful the Iceland squad who humiliated Roy Hodgson’s England astatine Euro 2016, but helium was an injured squad subordinate sat successful the stands erstwhile they caught Gareth Southgate’s complacent strollers napping again astatine Wembley past June.

He landed astatine Argyle aft reuniting with Wayne Rooney, who had antecedently managed him astatine DC United successful the States successful a globetrotting vocation which has besides taken him, successful batting order, from Island to Denmark, England, Scotland, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany and Belgium.

With 47 planetary caps sprinkled crossed 11 years connected his nomadic odyssey, Palsson is simply a walking billboard for the adage ‘Have boots, volition travel.’

But arsenic helium plots a booby-trap for his aged nine successful the chaotic West Country, helium wishes helium had made much of his clip connected Merseyside.

Fourteen years aft leaving Liverpool, Palsson’s accent is inactive laced with wide traces of Scouse and helium said: “Looking back, I wouldn’t accidental I person spent excessively overmuch of my vocation moving distant due to the fact that it runs overmuch deeper than that.

“To explicate afloat who I americium and wherever I came from would beryllium a agelong speech successful itself, but did I marque excessively galore moves? Probably, yes.

“Would I person done things a spot otherwise if I had the accidental again? Absolutely, yes. Do I regret it? Absolutely not - you can’t enactment a terms connected the shot experiences and beingness experiences I’ve had since I near Reykjavik arsenic a 17-year-old to motion my archetypal nonrecreational declaration successful Denmark.”

If Palsson missed the vessel arsenic an impressionable teen astatine Liverpool, helium would emotion to jog their memories astatine sold-out Home Park.

He said: “Hand connected heart, if I’d had the aforesaid mindset past that I person today, and possibly for the past 7 oregon 8 years, things astir apt would person turned retired differently.

“Without going into excessively overmuch detail, I recovered retired it was precise casual to get sucked into everything that comes with being a footballer. Being 17, coming from a tiny state similar Iceland and signing for a legendary nine similar Liverpool, 1 of the biggest successful the world, I got drawn into things going connected erstwhile I could person taken a antithetic direction.

“Sometimes you don’t realise what’s successful beforehand of you. I was astir apt young, naive and, yes, possibly a spot arrogant, reasoning I had made it.

“It’s a large satellite retired determination and I didn’t person the acquisition oregon intelligence capableness to grip it.

“I was determination nether 3 antithetic managers - Rafa Benitez, Roy Hodgson and Kenny Dalglish - and I arrived successful that play wherever Liverpool topped the array for a agelong clip but mislaid retired to Manchester United for the title.

“My champion representation was playing successful midfield with Steven Gerrard successful a reserve crippled against Tranmere Rovers and earlier the crippled I asked him if helium wanted to instrumentality the armband due to the fact that helium was the nine skipper and a legend.

“He said, ‘No, you’re the skipper of this team’ - but I was ne'er going to archer him what to do.”

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