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.
Steven Gerrard shows his Rangers pride as he singles out star who 'became a man'
dailyrecord.co.ukRangers players for their performance against Slavia Prague. Filip Helander 's away goal in the 1-1 draw in the Czech capital was given The Light Blues a great chance of reaching the last eight of the Europa League ahead of the Ibrox second leg.
Having been crowned Premiership champions just days ago, Gerrard praised his players for their focus on continuing their unbeaten European run.
Teenage right-back Nathan Patterson was singled out for special praise by the boss on BT Sport following his first start in continental competition.He said: "What you've got to take into consideration is everyone connected to the club has had a real emotional week."So to give to the game in terms of effort and application I'm so proud of the players."Nathan.
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