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.
Mario Balotelli backs Rangers boss Steven Gerrard as Liverpool flop forgives cutting verdict
dailyrecord.co.ukMario Balotelli's time at Liverpool might not have been as successful as he hoped when he made a £16million move to Anfield from AC Milan.
As a replacement for Luis Suarez, he had big shoes to fill and didn't really do it as he scored just one Premier League goal in 16 games before returning to Milan on loan and then joining Nice on a free transfer.Steven Gerrard was critical of him in his autobiography and reckoned it was too much of a gamble to take him to Liverpool, bellieving he didn't have the mentality to play at the top level.
He said: “There was no friction between us. We got on fine. I still tried to help him and I kept looking for chances to praise him. “But I could see Mourinho had been right when he said Mario Balotelli is
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