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.
Michael Beale has plotted a pre-season to make Rangers robust for everything ahead. Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s group had an injury crisis through the early months of last season.
It caught up with them in the thick of their Champions League flop of the autumn. Central defence was the worst hit as John Souttar, Ben Davies and Connor Goldson were all unavailable for spells, in addition to Filip Helander’s continued troubles.
Beale has taken his squad to a training camp in Germany to prepare for friendlies then the Euro qualifiers. And several Ibrox stalwarts will already be familiar with the tough programme.
Beale is putting them through a schedule similar to the one used regularly when he was a main man on Steven Gerrard’s staff.
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