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.
Jermain Defoe on his Rangers title agony as 'longest match ever' completes Michael Jordan inspired title feat
dailyrecord.co.ukJermain Defoe - more a wee shuffle towards the exit door of a spectacular career. But the Rangers striker, who has signed on for another year in a new player-coach capacity at Ibrox, admits he and his team-mates owe a debt of gratitude to the Michael Jordan documentary which had the sporting world talking during lockdown last year.
Defoe has finally ended a 21-year wait to lift a league title and he insists watching The Last Dance – the Netflix docuseries based on Jordan’s incredible basketball career and the final year of the Chicago Bulls dynasty – fed his own hunger to be crowned a champion before it was too late.That, of course, is exactly what transpired over the next 12 months.
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