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.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst has work to do as he aims to overhaul a 1-0 deficit going into the second leg of Rangers' Europa League battle with Braga.
The Portuguese side travel to Ibrox with a narrow advantage but they'll know it was only two years ago they threw away a 2-0 lead as the electric atmosphere took over and Ianis Hagi announced himself to the Govan crowd.
Back to the present day as the Light Blues are under different management with Van Bronckhorst taking them beyond Steven Gerrard's best finish in Europe.
Sunday's 4-0 destruction of St Mirren saw Kemar Roofe bag a hat-trick while other key players were rested with Thursday night and a potential place in the semi-finals in mind.
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