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.
Slavia Prague told Rangers atmosphere is 'why you play football' as Czech star recalls hair-raising Ibrox night
dailyrecord.co.ukIbrox on Thursday night, but former midfielder Michal Smarda reckons they should be gutted at missing out on a hair-raising atmosphere.
The Czech was part of the Viktoria Zizkov team that knocked Rangers out of the UEFA Cup in 2002, with Marcel Licka grabbing a crucial away goal in extra time of the second leg.
That gave the visitors a 3-1 win at Ibrox, sending Alex McLeish 's side crashing out of the competition. Steven Gerrard's side won't have the fans to roar them on tomorrow, but one man who played that night feels that's not necessarily an advantage for Slavia.
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