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.
Dick Advocaat and I didn’t exactly get on at Rangers. Let’s be honest, everyone knows we didn’t see eye to eye. But it had nothing to do with football.This was personal.
For my old team-mate, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Advocaat was a mentor. And there’s no doubt in my mind that, as a coach, Gio will have taken things he learned from Advocaat into his management.I’ve heard that it’s been a bit more strict around Rangers’ training ground since Gio took over from Steven Gerrard.That doesn’t surprise me.
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