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.
Jamie Carragher brands Djibril Cisse "f****** spaceman" during Liverpool's Istanbul win
dailystar.co.ukJamie Carragher has revealed that he called Djibril Cisse a "f****** spaceman” after his antics during Liverpool’s famous Champions League win in 2005.After going 3-0 down to AC Milan in Istanbul, the Reds looked down and out but Rafa Benitez masterminded a brilliant comeback.This was a Milan team full of some of the best players of all time: Paulo Maldini, Kaka, Alessandro Nesta, Andrea Pirlo, Cafu, Andriy Shevchenko, Clarence Seedorf… with Carlo Ancelotti at the helm.Maldini and Herman Crespo put the Italians 3-0 at half-time which sparked Benitez into life by changing to a back three and putting Didi Hamann.A shocking six-minute period came just before the hour mark where Steven Gerrard, Vladimir Smicer and Xabi Alonso all scored to send the match to penalties - which Liverpool won.But while Benitez was making his changes, Cisse inexplicably got ready to come on as Carragher recounted the hilarious moment while speaking on The Overlap podcast with Gary Neville and Roy Keane.He said: “What Benitez did, which was his great strength, is change things through a game and not get emotional, that was his thing.
He just made changes, changed the system, he even changed substitutions in the dressing room.“He told Djimi Traore to get a shower and because his English was not great he just said ‘Djimi.
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