Steven George Gerrard MBE (born 30 May 1980) is an English professional football manager and former player who manages Scottish Premiership club Rangers.
He spent the majority of his playing career as a central midfielder for Liverpool, with most of that time spent as club captain, as well as captaining the England national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest midfielders of all time,
Gerrard was awarded the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award in 2005, and the Ballon d'Or Bronze Award. In 2009, Zinedine Zidane and Pelé said that they considered Gerrard to be the best footballer in the world.
Alex Lowry and the 12 Rangers kids championed by Michael Beale as Ibrox academy success rate comes into focus
dailyrecord.co.ukMichael Beale is preparing to take on the blues as his Aston Villa side face Steven Gerrard’s old Merseyside rivals Everton in the Premier League at lunchtime.
But Beale had one eye on his old blues on the eve of his trip to Goodison Park with Rangers in Scottish Cup action against Stirling Albion on Friday night.
And a bit like a proud father seeing his kids progress, the former Ibrox coach was beaming as another Rangers youngster made his debut.
Beale highlighted a statistic for which he can take plenty of credit along with Gerrard and Gary McAllister. Speaking as the team line-ups were announced for fourth round clash with Darren Young’s Binos he took to Twitter to say how an appearance for substitute Alex Lowry would make it a dozen top team debuts for academy graduates since Gerrard took over in the summer of 2018.It didn’t take long before he was back on social media to congratulate teenager Lowry on not only making that appearance - an early introduction after Ianis Hagi was injured - but also grabbing the opener in a 4-0 win to cap a dream night.So as Lowry starred we look at the other eleven to have come through the ranks at Auchenhowie to star for the first team.Quickly promoted to the first team when he travelled for the first pre-season under Steven Gerrard.Had joined from the Norwich City youth academy five months earlier where Graeme Murty had worked with him.Made his competitive debut in Gerrard’s dug-out bow in the 2-0 Europa League qualifying win against FK Shkuphi.Made his top team bow when he came off the bench, replacing Greg Docherty, in a 6-0 rout of Gibraltar minnows St Joseph’s at Ibrox.Aged just 17, Beale was quick to praise McPake after that and said: "A special moment for Josh and his family.
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