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.
Ex-England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson dies
manchestereveningnews.co.ukEx-England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson has died at the age of 76. The first non-British manager of the Three Lions, Eriksson saw the team to quarter-finals at three major tournaments during his five-year spell in charge between 2001 and 2006.
Eriksson managed Manchester City between 2007 and 2008, as well as Leicester, Roma and Lazio, winning 18 trophies in total. Eriksson had pancreatic cancer and at the beginning of the year revealed he only had a year to live "at best". READ MORE: 'We were thinking how we could make him leave...
when I found what he was doing I just started screaming' In a statement, his family said: "Sven-Goran Eriksson has passed away.
After a long illness, SGE died during the morning at home surrounded by family." It added: "The closest mourners are daughter Lina; son Johan with wife Amana and granddaughter Sky; father Sven; girlfriend Yanisette with son Alcides; brother Lars-Erik with wife Jumnong. "The family asks for respect for their wish to mourn in private and not be contacted." Eriksson coached some of England's most famous and beloved players, including David Beckham, Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, and Frank Lampard.
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