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.
James Tavernier, Connor Goldson, Steven Davis and goalkeeper Allan McGregor are the quartet in the running to lift this season’s prize.
It means the recipient will come from the Ibrox club for the first time in over a decade with David Weir named the country’s top player by the football writers in 2010.
Old Firm rivals Celtic have had nine of the 10 winners since then with current Parkhead striker Leigh Griffiths the only non-Hoops player to win it during that time after picking up the gong while at Hibs.
Rangers have stormed to their first Scottish Premiership title in a decade under Steven Gerrard, also in the running for the SFWA Manager of the Year, this season.
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