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.
James Tavernier pins Rangers Champions League hopes on Connor Goldson partnership as skipper ready for the big stage
dailyrecord.co.ukConnor Goldson by his side. The 29-year-old reckons much of last season’s success, which saw Steven Gerrard’s side romp to a first title in a decade by 25 points, wouldn’t have been possible without Goldson who played every minute of the campaign.
Attention now turns to Europe with Rangers back in the Champions League mix for the first time since 2011. And Tavernier says vice-captain Goldson, who underwent surgery on a life-threatening heart condition just four years ago, is pivotal to the club’s hopes.
He said: “I’ve loved it from the first moment Connor came in. I was with him at Shrewsbury so I knew him before he came here and we gelled straight away.“If it wasn’t for Connor next to me we wouldn’t have probably got the amount of success.
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