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.
Rangers player ratings as Nathan Patterson impresses again despite Europa League defeat
dailyrecord.co.ukRangers on Thursday, with a first European quarter-final since 2008 looming tantalisingly on the horizon. But it ended up being a nightmare for Steven Gerrard 's team as Slavia Prague sent them packing at Ibrox.
Things were looking promising for the newly-crowned Scottish champions after a 1-1 draw in the Czech Republic. They came in as narrow favourites to advance at Ibrox, a venue at which they hadn't tasted defeat in almost a year.But 97 minutes of football and two red cards later, they were eliminated from the competition before Gdansk had the chance to become a realistic ambition.Peter Olayinka's header got things started in the first half before Kemar Roofe was sent for an early bath after catching keeper Ondrej Kolar with a high.
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