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.
Jurgen Klopp has opened up about the heart-stopping moment he received a phone call from his agent, who told him that Liverpool were interested in his services back in 2015.The German manager, who had ended his seven-year stint with Borussia Dortmund a few months earlier, says he'd heard rumours of Liverpool's interest via his internet-savvy sons, but wasn't ready to believe it until he officially got the call.
When it eventually came, he traded a quick, memorable glance with his boys, and claimed that at that moment, he knew it was the job for him."I had a call from my agent, I was in a holiday mood but I knew about the rumours from my sons who pick up everything," Klopp said on Monday, speaking ahead of Liverpool's Champions League quarter-final first-leg against Benfica tomorrow."The phone rang, when he said 'Liverpool are calling' the boys were staring at me.
It felt right," he added.The Reds were in desperate need of a pick-me-up following Brendan Rodgers' dismissal at the start of the 2015/16 season.
They were 10th with two months of the season gone, and having come so close to being crowned Premier League champions for the first time ever just over a year before, the mood around Merseyside was understandably flat.Everyone was deflated.
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