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.
Steven Gerrard explains first piece of advice Jurgen Klopp gave him
mirror.co.ukSteven Gerrard admits a frank chat with current Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp helped him develop into the manager he is today.
Having formerly coached Liverpool's youngsters the former Reds skipper took charge of Rangers almost two years ago. But the German told him to forget his reputation as a player and be prepared to get things "wildly wrong".
Klopp has won the Bundesliga title twice and surely soon the Premier League title so is a handy man to learn from. “The best thing I ever did was to go away from the cameras in the beginning," Gerrard told UEFA's website . "I had a real honest and open conversation with Jurgen Klopp for a couple of hours and the advice he gave me was: ‘Don’t go into this as Steven Gerrard with the name on your
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