Past playersLuis Garcia

A gifted player, the diminutive Spaniard scored some truly unforgettable goals for Liverpool and gave us some brilliant moments.

Rafa Benitez was in charge of Tenerife in 2000-01 when Garcia starred to help promote the club to La Liga. Garcia scored 16 goals in 40 games, but he was only on loan from Valladolid and returned there in 2001-02, playing 27 games, scoring eight goals.

The versatile attacking midfielder moved to Atletico Madrid in 2002-03, making 25 appearances and scoring six goals, and was considered by many as their best player that season. Barcelona snapped him up before the 2003-04 campaign.

He was no stranger to Barcelona as he had been raised in their B side from the age of 19 until he was 21. He played 25 games and scored four goals that season, coming into his own in the second half of the year.

After Benitez and the Reds came calling following the former's appointment as manager, Garcia became quite a hit in his first year in English football and he netted five goals in the run-up to the Champions League final in Istanbul.

Two of them will be forever etched in LFC memory banks. A sensational strike against Juventus at Anfield had everyone believing it could be the Reds' year and the one against Chelsea in the semi-final was priceless, sending Liverpool to Istanbul and generating years of debate: was it over the line?

More pertinently for those of a Liverpool persuasion, who cared? Garcia went on start the sensational showpiece versus AC Milan as a fifth European Cup was lifted.

The following season he was inflicting pain on Chelsea again when he scored a belter in the FA Cup semi-final at Old Trafford, but unfortunately he missed the final through suspension when he was sent off in a Premier League encounter against, ironically, final opponents West Ham United.

Garcia missed half of his third and last season at Liverpool after getting injured in a 6-3 defeat by Arsenal in the fifth round of the Carling Cup.

And in July 2007 it was announced that he would be returning to play in the country of his birth with Atletico, though with guaranteed status as a Kop favourite.