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.
With the now infamous pledge of Steven Gerrard still ringing hollow around Ibrox, Giovanni van Bronckhorst set about showing Rangers he's a man of his word.
The Dutchman swept back into Glasgow this week and promised changes, changes that were duly delivered in a required two-goal win over Sparta Prague that tees up a third consecutive tilt at the Europa League knockout stages.
The primary shake-up was that Rangers looked as happy and settled as they've done for some time, not least Alfredo Morelos as his double proved enough to see off the Czechs.
Lyon coming from behind to beat Brondby sealed Rangers ' progression on what was the ideal opening night for the new manager - especially given how rudderless his players looked in defeat to
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