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.
Europa League play-off win over Alashkert. John Lundstram 's first-half red card put Steven Gerrard's side up against in a tense first leg encounter but Alfredo Morelos struck after the interval to claim victory.
The Premiership champions now take a slender lead to Armenia next week, knowing that avoiding defeat will secure passage to the group stage once again.Here's how they rated on Thursday night.ALLAN McGREGOR: Clocked up his 90th European appearance for Rangers and had little to do other than charge out of his box to make an early hurried clearance - 6JAMES TAVERNIER: Still not playing with the verve and vigour that epitomised last season.
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