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.
Rangers striker admits he will never be able to outrun memories of THAT Lyon miss. Steven Gerrard ’s side will kick-off their Europa League campaign against the Ligue 1 giants on Thursday night but back in 2007, Lyon were all that stood in the way of Walter Smith’s team reaching the last 16 of the Champions League.
Gers only needed a point at home to the French champions to join the rest of the continent’s top guns in the shoot-out stages.
Falling behind to Sydney Gouvou’s early opener was an early set-back but Ibrox held its breath when with 10 minutes left, Barry Ferguson laid the ball on a plate for Darcheville to fire into an empty net.
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