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.
Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes (born 8 September 1994) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP and the Portugal national team as a midfielder. Fernandes started his career at Serie B side Novara Calcio and soon featured for Udinese and Sampdoria in Serie A.
In 2017, he signed with Sporting CP where he established himself as one of the best players in the Primeira Liga. He was named the LPFP Primeira Liga Player of the Year in both 2017–18 and 2018–19. In the latter season, he also helped Sporting win the Taça de Portugal. A senior international since 2017, Fernandes represented Portugal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Rangers hero and flop pair make unlikely double act in Europa League 'team of the year'
dailyrecord.co.ukThe coronavirus pandemic has put paid to football for now and the break in action means it's as good as time as any to start dishing out the awards.Hope remains the 2019/20 season might resume in the future but with Covid-19 sweeping the globe there's certainly no guarantees.
And Whoscored.com - who rate every player's performance in each individual game - have put together their Europa League XI for the season so far.
There are some obvious candidates in the line-up with Manchester United boasting three stars in Harry Maguire, Fred and january arrival Bruno Fernandes.
And Rangers are represented with Alfredo Morelos earning acclaim for his six goals in the tournament proper with Steven Gerrard reaching the last 16 before UEFA pulled the
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