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 has warned his flying full backs they will have to keep up their sizzling form because they now have brilliant back-ups breathing down their necks for a starting place.Skipper James Tavernier and Borna Barisic have been in sizzling form and key to the Light Blues early season success as they look to continue their unbeaten run when they travel to Rugby Park today.Tavernier has bagged nine goals and Barisic made it seven assists with another superb delivery for Alfredo Morelos to grab the winner against Lech Poznan in the Europa League on Thursday.But while the defensive duo have been in top form, Gerrard insists they can’t take their places in the starting XI for granted with kid Nathan Patterson and Calvin Bassey both.
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