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 points to Rangers 'unique situation' as he predicts biggest Europa League challenge
dailyrecord.co.ukEuropa League stage will be harder than ever as he looks to make it a hat-trick of qualifying successes with Rangers. The Ibrox boss touched down in the Netherlands with his Light Blues squad on Wednesday ahead of their third round shoot-out against Willem II in Tilburg.
Gerrard boasts an impressive record in the continent’s second tier competition after twice coming through a gruelling qualifying schedule to reach the lucrative group stage.
But with ties now reduced to one-off matches and the lack of fans, he reckons they face their toughest mission yet with a home play-off tie against Galatasaray or Hadjuk Split awaiting the winners.
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