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.
Liverpool and Scotland legend Gary McAllister: The icons of the 1990s
dailyrecord.co.ukSteven Gerrard thought so.In fact, the Rangers manager, then just a 20-year-old beginning to make his mark at Liverpool, couldn’t believe Gerard Houllier was bringing McAllister to Anfield in the summer of 2000.In his autobiography, Gerrard said: “He seemed an odd buy,.“Okay, he was once a terrific midfielder for Leeds and Scotland but McAllister was now 35, his best days surely behind him… I rang my agent, Struan Marshall, who knew McAllister well. ‘Stru, what’s all this about?’, I asked.“‘Don’t worry, Stevie’, replied Struan, ‘Gary Mac will be brilliant for Liverpool and for you as well.
Listen to him. Learn from him’.“‘Sod off, Stru’, I said. ‘McAllister can learn off me!’ How wrong I was.”McAllister knew he had a lot to prove.
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