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.
Walter Smith and the 'angriest ever' Rangers rant that Steven Gerrard can channel to bounce back from European heartbreak
dailyrecord.co.ukRangers in the space of three months in 2008 after a shock Champions League defeat by Kaunas. It was 13 years ago but Kirk Broadfoot remembers the fallout like it was yesterday.
A dressing-room stunned into silence by an apoplectic Walter Smith in the bowels of the Darius and Girenas Stadium in Lithuania.
A realisation that they had gone from a European final to also-rans with no UEFA parachute. The sale of big players such as Carlos Cuellar and Daniel Cousin before September.
And, crucially, the recruitment of new, hungry first-team players who would revitalise Smith’s squad and lead them to the title.There are similarities between that summer of 2008 and right now at Ibrox.
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