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.
The Rangers and Celtic Covid parallel as Ibrox outbreak sees script flipped for derby showdown
dailyrecord.co.ukRangers announced that players had tested positive ahead of their clash with Alashkert. Those involved and any close contacts are isolating ahead of the Europa League second leg, and the visitors will be confident of going through with a 1-0 lead from the first match.
But while Steven Gerrard 's focus will be on the task at hand, the thoughts of fans immediately turned to Sunday's clash with Celtic.
And it will not be lost on supporters of both sides that Rangers missing several stars would be a mirror image of the first Old Firm game last season.
On that occasion it was Celtic who were hit by the virus, with Odsonne Edouard laid low after testing positive while away with the France Under-21 side.
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