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.
Felix Magath reveals Rangers manager job near miss and why he will never sell his Ibrox shares
dailyrecord.co.ukFelix Magath claims he was nearly Rangers manager before Steven Gerrard got the job. The legendary German boss has been a shareholder in the Ibrox club since 2014 when he bought a one per cent stake of 810,000 shares while they languished in the lower leagues of Scottish football.
He's kept a keen eye on them ever since and Magath, whose storied career has seen him in charge of Bayern Munich, Wolfsburg and Fulham as well as a host of others, even interviewed for the manager's job in 2018.Magath was out of work after a brief stint in China and says he held meetings with the board about the job before going in separate directions.
He said via the Scottish Sun: “We met in London and we discussed possibilities. It was 2018 and I was interested. But as with any negotiation with a club, things have to be right.
Obviously, there are different aspects in British football and, unfortunately, it didn’t work out.” Magath also opened up on his eyebrow-raising decision to invest significant cash in the Ibrox club to help aid their resurgence back up the leagues.
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