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 keep Champions League coefficient dream alive but Ukrainian surge leaves group stage place in the balance
dailyrecord.co.ukRoyal Antwerp but they must win in the second leg.Steven Gerrard's side got the better of a seven goal thriller in Belgium to put themselves in command of the tie.A 4-3 win makes Rangers favourites to progress, though the last 32 clash is far from over after a ding-dong encounter.And the result has big implications for the coefficient, with the carrot of an automatic place in the Champions League group stage for next season's title winners.Going into Thursday's game the Premiership was ranked 11th in the UEFA coefficients.That in itself is not enough to guarantee a group stage place but the likelihood is that it would be sufficient.For the 2022-23 Champions League, 32 teams go into the 2022-23 group stage, of which 26 will qualify.
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