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 been urged to block out the inevitable Liverpool talk and focus on leading Aston Villa into Europe by his former team-mate Emile Heskey.Gerrard left Rangers to succeed Dean Smith at Villa two weeks ago and began his reign in Birmingham with a promising 2-0 win over Brighton last weekend.The 41-year-old signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Villa, but his first Premier League managerial job has brought the possibility of a return to Anfield into sharper focus.Gerrard spent 17 years playing for boyhood club Liverpool and has repeatedly been linked with becoming Jurgen Klopp’s successor ever since he took the Rangers job three years ago.Klopp is under contract with Liverpool until the summer of 2024, meaning the topic.
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