Liam Miller

Liam Miller's story moves me more than almost any name in this batch. A diminutive midfielder out of Cork who broke through at Celtic and earned a move to Manchester United, he had the nerve to compete at the very top on talent alone. That he died of pancreatic cancer in 2018, just four days short of his 37th birthday, feels unbearably unfair. The tribute matches in Ireland that drew tens of thousands tell you everything about how he was loved. To me he is the rare athlete remembered less for trophies than for the warmth he left behind. Rest easy.

Name (English)

Liam Miller

Name (Japanese)

リアム・ミラー

Reading

りあむ・みらー

Born

February 13, 1981 – February 9, 2018

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

Origin

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Height

170 cm

Occupation

association football player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9F%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%20(1981%E5%B9%B4%E7%94%9F%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)

Tags

• County Cork
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.