Personal informationFull name Steven George Gerrard
Date of birth 30 May 1980
Place of birth Whiston, Merseyside, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position Midfielder
Current club Liverpool
Number 8
Youth career
1987–1998 Liverpool
Senior career :
1998– Liverpool
National team :
1999 England U21
2000– England
Club career
Gerrard during the 2006–07 season
Born in Whiston, Merseyside, Gerrard began out playing for hometown team Whiston Juniors, where he was detected via Liverpool scouts. He stringed the Reds' youth academy at the age of nine. Gerrard thereafter had challenges with various clubs at fourteen, but his success wasn't immediate—Gerrard never prepared it into the England Schoolboys team. Gerrard's challenges included Manchester United, which he asserted in his 2006 autobiography was "to pressure Liverpool into paying me a YTS contract." He gestured his first businessman contract with Liverpool on 5 November 1997.
Gerrard prepared his Liverpool first-team debut on 29 November 1998 in a suit against Blackburn Rovers as a final tiny substitute for Vegard Heggem. He prepared thirteen arrivals in his debut season, filling in the midfield location for injured captain Jamie Redknapp and playing on the right wing, but he barely contributed in the brief on-pitch time he received, due to nervousness impacting his play. Gerrard remembered in a November 2008 interview with The Guardian, "I was out of location and out of my depth." The Liverpool hierarchy nonetheless waited persuaded that he would improve. Gerrard saw himself as a defensive actor initially, gazing to produce pivotal tackles instead thrust the team forward.
Gerrard partnered Redknapp in interior midfield for the 1999–00 season. After beginning the derby suit against Everton on the bench, he displaced Robbie Fowler in the second half but received his first career red card for a late foul on Everton's Kevin Campbell. Later that season, Gerrard scored his first senior target in a 4–1 victory across Sheffield Wednesday. However, he originated to suffer from nagging rear troubles, which sports adviser Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt subsequent diagnosed as a effect of accelerated growth, coupled with excessive playing, during his teenage years. He was thereafter beset via groin injuries that needed four separate operations.
Gerrard shooting for Liverpool
In 2000–01, he prepared fifty begins in all contests and scored ten targets as Liverpool won the League Cup, FA Cup, and the 2001 UEFA Cup. Gerrard displaced Sami Hyypiä as Liverpool captain in October 2003, as administrator Gérard Houllier said that he identified Gerrard had indicated leadership qualities early on, but lacked to mature. He chose to continue his contract at the club, signing a fresh four-year deal.
Houllier quit afterwards a trophyless 2003–04 campaign, and Gerrard was linked with a shift to Chelsea during the offseason. He admitted he was not "happy with the progress Liverpool has made," and that "for the first time in my career I've thought approximate the chance of shifting on."[15] In the end, Gerrard declined a £20 million offer from Chelsea to remain with Liverpool and fresh bus Rafael Benítez.
Liverpool were wracked with injury early in the 2004–05 season, and a foot injury suffered in a September league suit against Manchester United shelved Gerrard until late November. He returned to score in the final five minutes of a Champions League team degree suit against Olympiacos to lock Liverpool's progress to the knockout round. He asserted that this was his majority significant, whether not his best, target for Liverpool to date. However, Gerrard netted an possess target during the 2005 League Cup final on 27 February, which proved definite in Liverpool's 3–2 loss to Chelsea.
During a six-minute stretch in the second half of the 2005 Champions League final against A.C. Milan, Liverpool came rear from a three-goal deficit to tie the suit at 3–3 afterwards extra time, with Gerrard scoring one of the goals. Liverpool's third target was accrued as a punishment from a foul awarded to Liverpool as shortly as Gennaro Gattuso fouled Gerrard in Milan's punishment box. Gerrard did not participate in the punishment shootout, which Liverpool won 3–2 as they asserted their first CL trophy in twenty years,[20] though he was dubbed the Man of the Match, and subsequent received the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award.
In regards to his contract releases with Liverpool, Gerrard confided the press afterwards the final, "How can I retire afterwards a evening like this?" But negotiations shortly stagnated and on 5 July 2005, afterwards Liverpool declined another lucrative offer from Chelsea, Gerrard discarded a club-record £100,000-a-week offer. Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry granted the club had no where Gerrard, phrase, "Now we have to shift on. We have done our best, but he has prepared it sweep he hopes to go and I think it gazes pretty final." The following day, Gerrard gestured a fresh four-year sell as Parry blamed the sooner decay of confers on miscommunication between the pair sides.
Gerrard scored twenty-three targets in 53 arrivals in 2005–06, and in April became the first Liverpool actor since John Barnes in 1988 to be voted the PFA Player of the Year. He scored double in the 2006 FA Cup final against West Ham United, encompassing an equalizer that sent the suit into extra time, and Liverpool won their second consecutive main trophy on penalties. The targets prepared him the merely actor to have scored in the FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Cup and Champions League finals. Gerrard netted a punishment as Liverpool eliminated league rival Chelsea in the 2006–07 Champions League semi-finals to return to their second final in three seasons, which they no where 2–1 to Milan.
Gerrard suffered a hairline toe fracture in an August 2007 Champions League qualifier against Toulouse F.C., but returned four days subsequent to play the entirety of a 1–1 league draw against Chelsea. On 28 October 2007, Gerrard played his 400th game for Liverpool in a league suit against Arsenal, in which he scored. He scored in all but one of Liverpool's servant and European suits during the month of November, and afterwards scoring the merely target in a Champions League away tie against Olympique de Marseille on 11 December, he became the first Liverpool actor since John Aldridge in 1989 to score in seven consecutive sport in all competitions.
He prepared his 300th Premier League arrival on 13 April 2008 in a suit against Blackburn Rovers, scoring the opportunity goal, and done the season with twenty-one targets in all contests, surpassing his total from the 2006–07 season. Gerrard was chosen for the PFA Team of the Year and he was also one of the nominees or the PFA Player of the Year, alongside teammate Fernando Torres.
Gerrard lacked to undergo groin medicine at the conception of the 2008-09 season, but the burden was not grave and he rapidly returned to training. He scored what emerged to be his hundredth career Liverpool target against Stoke City on twenty September, but it was disallowed afterwards Dirk Kuyt was governed offside. He achieved the milestone eleven days subsequent in a 3–1 Champions League team degree win across PSV.
He prepared his 100th arrival in European club competition for Liverpool on ten March 2009 against Real Madrid and scored double in a 4–0 win. Four days afterwards the grand victory across Real, Gerrard would score at Old Trafford for the first time from the punishment dot, placing Liverpool forward on their way to a 4–1 victory across Manchester United. Following these results, three-time FIFA World Player of the Year Zinedine Zidane hailed the Liverpool skipper, phrase "Is he the best in the world? He might not obtain the attention of Messi and Ronaldo but yeah, I think he might be." On 22 March 2009, Gerrard scored his first ever hat-trick in the Premier League, against Aston Villa, in a 5–0 victory. On 13 May 2009, Gerrard was dubbed as the 2009 Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year, becoming the first Liverpool actor to win the award in nineteen years. Gerrard had pipped Manchester United duo Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney in the poll voted for via journalists, defeating Ryan Giggs via just ten votes. Upon receiving the award, he was quoted as phrase "I'm delighted but I'm a small bit surprised," he commented. "When you appearance at the quality of the players there are in this league, it's a great privilege to win this manner of award." He ended the 2009-10 season with a total of 12 targets and 9 contributes from 46 matches.
Following the 2009-10 season, Rafael Benitez departed Liverpool afterwards six years and was succeeded as administrator via Roy Hodgson, whoever rapidly confident fans that Gerrard would not be sold. To further get rid of any speculation enclosing his future at the club, Gerrard prepared a pronouncement emphasising his excitement at the emanating season with Liverpool and praising the signing of Joe Cole. Gerrard shortly played his first pre-season suit of the 2010-11 season against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 1 August 2010 alongside fresh signing Cole.
Gerrard scored his first target of the 2010-11 season from the punishment dot in a Europa League qualifier against Macedonian side FK Rabotnicki on the 5th August 2010.
His following pair targets came on 19 September at Old Trafford in a 3-2 loss against Manchester United; he scored from a punishment kick in the 64th tiny and a free-kick six minutes subsequent to horizontal the game at 2-2.[50] He chased this upward with the equaliser in a 2-2 home draw with Sunderland. 11 days subsequent Gerrard came off the bench to score a second-half hat-trick in a 3-1 win across Napoli in the Europa League.
International career
Gerrard prepared his global debut against Ukraine on 31 May 2000. That summer, he was paged upward for Euro 2000, earning merely one arrival as a substitute in a 1–0 win across Germany ago England were eliminated in the team stage. Gerrard scored his first global target in the legendary 5–1 victory across Germany in a 2002 World Cup qualifier in September 2001, and whereas England qualified, Gerrard was coerced to drag out of the squad due to his ongoing groin troubles afterwards dragging upward in Liverpool's final suit of the season against Ipswich.
He was a regular starter in Euro 2004, scoring once – against Switzerland – ago England were eliminated via Portugal in the quarter-finals on penalties. He participated in his first World Cup in 2006 and pair targets, both in the team degree, against Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden, however his dot kick was one of three saved via goalkeeper Ricardo as England again bowed out to Portugal in the quarter-finals on penalties. He was England's lid scorer in the tournament.
Gerrard was prepared vice-captain of the England team via bus Steve McClaren,[59] and whereas he brimming in for John Terry as captain, England suffered back-to-back losses to Russia and Croatia that ended their Euro 2008 qualifying hopes. After fresh bus Fabio Capello took across the team in early 2008, Gerrard was given a experiment run as captain but Capello resolved on Terry for the role. Gerrard was subsequently displaced as England vice-captain via Rio Ferdinand.
Gerrard facilitated England qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, scoring pair targets in England's 5–1 win across Croatia.
John Terry was displaced via Rio Ferdinand as captain in 2010, chasing disclosures approximate the former's private life, and Gerrard subsequently became vice-captain again. When the England team retired for the 2010 World Cup, Gerrard was the majority worldly actor in the squad with 80 caps. During preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, however, Rio Ferdinand was injured, meaning that Gerrard was appointed via Capello as captain for the tournament. After the tournament Gerrard, fraction of a team of England players dubbed the "Golden Generation", confirmed that he would extend to be available for selection, regardless indications from Capello that he would search to re-build the team.
On the August 2010, Gerrard scored double in a friendly suit against Hungary and facilitated England to a 2-1. Due to of Ferdinand's lasted absence through injury, Gerrard stored the captaincy for the opportunity suit of the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign against Bulgaria, which England won 4-0.
Date of birth 30 May 1980
Place of birth Whiston, Merseyside, England
Height 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Playing position Midfielder
Current club Liverpool
Number 8
Youth career
1987–1998 Liverpool
Senior career :
1998– Liverpool
National team :
1999 England U21
2000– England
Club career
Gerrard during the 2006–07 season
Born in Whiston, Merseyside, Gerrard began out playing for hometown team Whiston Juniors, where he was detected via Liverpool scouts. He stringed the Reds' youth academy at the age of nine. Gerrard thereafter had challenges with various clubs at fourteen, but his success wasn't immediate—Gerrard never prepared it into the England Schoolboys team. Gerrard's challenges included Manchester United, which he asserted in his 2006 autobiography was "to pressure Liverpool into paying me a YTS contract." He gestured his first businessman contract with Liverpool on 5 November 1997.
Gerrard prepared his Liverpool first-team debut on 29 November 1998 in a suit against Blackburn Rovers as a final tiny substitute for Vegard Heggem. He prepared thirteen arrivals in his debut season, filling in the midfield location for injured captain Jamie Redknapp and playing on the right wing, but he barely contributed in the brief on-pitch time he received, due to nervousness impacting his play. Gerrard remembered in a November 2008 interview with The Guardian, "I was out of location and out of my depth." The Liverpool hierarchy nonetheless waited persuaded that he would improve. Gerrard saw himself as a defensive actor initially, gazing to produce pivotal tackles instead thrust the team forward.
Gerrard partnered Redknapp in interior midfield for the 1999–00 season. After beginning the derby suit against Everton on the bench, he displaced Robbie Fowler in the second half but received his first career red card for a late foul on Everton's Kevin Campbell. Later that season, Gerrard scored his first senior target in a 4–1 victory across Sheffield Wednesday. However, he originated to suffer from nagging rear troubles, which sports adviser Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt subsequent diagnosed as a effect of accelerated growth, coupled with excessive playing, during his teenage years. He was thereafter beset via groin injuries that needed four separate operations.
Gerrard shooting for Liverpool
In 2000–01, he prepared fifty begins in all contests and scored ten targets as Liverpool won the League Cup, FA Cup, and the 2001 UEFA Cup. Gerrard displaced Sami Hyypiä as Liverpool captain in October 2003, as administrator Gérard Houllier said that he identified Gerrard had indicated leadership qualities early on, but lacked to mature. He chose to continue his contract at the club, signing a fresh four-year deal.
Houllier quit afterwards a trophyless 2003–04 campaign, and Gerrard was linked with a shift to Chelsea during the offseason. He admitted he was not "happy with the progress Liverpool has made," and that "for the first time in my career I've thought approximate the chance of shifting on."[15] In the end, Gerrard declined a £20 million offer from Chelsea to remain with Liverpool and fresh bus Rafael Benítez.
Liverpool were wracked with injury early in the 2004–05 season, and a foot injury suffered in a September league suit against Manchester United shelved Gerrard until late November. He returned to score in the final five minutes of a Champions League team degree suit against Olympiacos to lock Liverpool's progress to the knockout round. He asserted that this was his majority significant, whether not his best, target for Liverpool to date. However, Gerrard netted an possess target during the 2005 League Cup final on 27 February, which proved definite in Liverpool's 3–2 loss to Chelsea.
During a six-minute stretch in the second half of the 2005 Champions League final against A.C. Milan, Liverpool came rear from a three-goal deficit to tie the suit at 3–3 afterwards extra time, with Gerrard scoring one of the goals. Liverpool's third target was accrued as a punishment from a foul awarded to Liverpool as shortly as Gennaro Gattuso fouled Gerrard in Milan's punishment box. Gerrard did not participate in the punishment shootout, which Liverpool won 3–2 as they asserted their first CL trophy in twenty years,[20] though he was dubbed the Man of the Match, and subsequent received the UEFA Club Footballer of the Year award.
In regards to his contract releases with Liverpool, Gerrard confided the press afterwards the final, "How can I retire afterwards a evening like this?" But negotiations shortly stagnated and on 5 July 2005, afterwards Liverpool declined another lucrative offer from Chelsea, Gerrard discarded a club-record £100,000-a-week offer. Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry granted the club had no where Gerrard, phrase, "Now we have to shift on. We have done our best, but he has prepared it sweep he hopes to go and I think it gazes pretty final." The following day, Gerrard gestured a fresh four-year sell as Parry blamed the sooner decay of confers on miscommunication between the pair sides.
Gerrard scored twenty-three targets in 53 arrivals in 2005–06, and in April became the first Liverpool actor since John Barnes in 1988 to be voted the PFA Player of the Year. He scored double in the 2006 FA Cup final against West Ham United, encompassing an equalizer that sent the suit into extra time, and Liverpool won their second consecutive main trophy on penalties. The targets prepared him the merely actor to have scored in the FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Cup and Champions League finals. Gerrard netted a punishment as Liverpool eliminated league rival Chelsea in the 2006–07 Champions League semi-finals to return to their second final in three seasons, which they no where 2–1 to Milan.
Gerrard suffered a hairline toe fracture in an August 2007 Champions League qualifier against Toulouse F.C., but returned four days subsequent to play the entirety of a 1–1 league draw against Chelsea. On 28 October 2007, Gerrard played his 400th game for Liverpool in a league suit against Arsenal, in which he scored. He scored in all but one of Liverpool's servant and European suits during the month of November, and afterwards scoring the merely target in a Champions League away tie against Olympique de Marseille on 11 December, he became the first Liverpool actor since John Aldridge in 1989 to score in seven consecutive sport in all competitions.
He prepared his 300th Premier League arrival on 13 April 2008 in a suit against Blackburn Rovers, scoring the opportunity goal, and done the season with twenty-one targets in all contests, surpassing his total from the 2006–07 season. Gerrard was chosen for the PFA Team of the Year and he was also one of the nominees or the PFA Player of the Year, alongside teammate Fernando Torres.
Gerrard lacked to undergo groin medicine at the conception of the 2008-09 season, but the burden was not grave and he rapidly returned to training. He scored what emerged to be his hundredth career Liverpool target against Stoke City on twenty September, but it was disallowed afterwards Dirk Kuyt was governed offside. He achieved the milestone eleven days subsequent in a 3–1 Champions League team degree win across PSV.
He prepared his 100th arrival in European club competition for Liverpool on ten March 2009 against Real Madrid and scored double in a 4–0 win. Four days afterwards the grand victory across Real, Gerrard would score at Old Trafford for the first time from the punishment dot, placing Liverpool forward on their way to a 4–1 victory across Manchester United. Following these results, three-time FIFA World Player of the Year Zinedine Zidane hailed the Liverpool skipper, phrase "Is he the best in the world? He might not obtain the attention of Messi and Ronaldo but yeah, I think he might be." On 22 March 2009, Gerrard scored his first ever hat-trick in the Premier League, against Aston Villa, in a 5–0 victory. On 13 May 2009, Gerrard was dubbed as the 2009 Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year, becoming the first Liverpool actor to win the award in nineteen years. Gerrard had pipped Manchester United duo Ryan Giggs and Wayne Rooney in the poll voted for via journalists, defeating Ryan Giggs via just ten votes. Upon receiving the award, he was quoted as phrase "I'm delighted but I'm a small bit surprised," he commented. "When you appearance at the quality of the players there are in this league, it's a great privilege to win this manner of award." He ended the 2009-10 season with a total of 12 targets and 9 contributes from 46 matches.
Following the 2009-10 season, Rafael Benitez departed Liverpool afterwards six years and was succeeded as administrator via Roy Hodgson, whoever rapidly confident fans that Gerrard would not be sold. To further get rid of any speculation enclosing his future at the club, Gerrard prepared a pronouncement emphasising his excitement at the emanating season with Liverpool and praising the signing of Joe Cole. Gerrard shortly played his first pre-season suit of the 2010-11 season against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 1 August 2010 alongside fresh signing Cole.
Gerrard scored his first target of the 2010-11 season from the punishment dot in a Europa League qualifier against Macedonian side FK Rabotnicki on the 5th August 2010.
His following pair targets came on 19 September at Old Trafford in a 3-2 loss against Manchester United; he scored from a punishment kick in the 64th tiny and a free-kick six minutes subsequent to horizontal the game at 2-2.[50] He chased this upward with the equaliser in a 2-2 home draw with Sunderland. 11 days subsequent Gerrard came off the bench to score a second-half hat-trick in a 3-1 win across Napoli in the Europa League.
International career
Gerrard prepared his global debut against Ukraine on 31 May 2000. That summer, he was paged upward for Euro 2000, earning merely one arrival as a substitute in a 1–0 win across Germany ago England were eliminated in the team stage. Gerrard scored his first global target in the legendary 5–1 victory across Germany in a 2002 World Cup qualifier in September 2001, and whereas England qualified, Gerrard was coerced to drag out of the squad due to his ongoing groin troubles afterwards dragging upward in Liverpool's final suit of the season against Ipswich.
He was a regular starter in Euro 2004, scoring once – against Switzerland – ago England were eliminated via Portugal in the quarter-finals on penalties. He participated in his first World Cup in 2006 and pair targets, both in the team degree, against Trinidad & Tobago and Sweden, however his dot kick was one of three saved via goalkeeper Ricardo as England again bowed out to Portugal in the quarter-finals on penalties. He was England's lid scorer in the tournament.
Gerrard was prepared vice-captain of the England team via bus Steve McClaren,[59] and whereas he brimming in for John Terry as captain, England suffered back-to-back losses to Russia and Croatia that ended their Euro 2008 qualifying hopes. After fresh bus Fabio Capello took across the team in early 2008, Gerrard was given a experiment run as captain but Capello resolved on Terry for the role. Gerrard was subsequently displaced as England vice-captain via Rio Ferdinand.
Gerrard facilitated England qualify for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, scoring pair targets in England's 5–1 win across Croatia.
John Terry was displaced via Rio Ferdinand as captain in 2010, chasing disclosures approximate the former's private life, and Gerrard subsequently became vice-captain again. When the England team retired for the 2010 World Cup, Gerrard was the majority worldly actor in the squad with 80 caps. During preparations for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, however, Rio Ferdinand was injured, meaning that Gerrard was appointed via Capello as captain for the tournament. After the tournament Gerrard, fraction of a team of England players dubbed the "Golden Generation", confirmed that he would extend to be available for selection, regardless indications from Capello that he would search to re-build the team.
On the August 2010, Gerrard scored double in a friendly suit against Hungary and facilitated England to a 2-1. Due to of Ferdinand's lasted absence through injury, Gerrard stored the captaincy for the opportunity suit of the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign against Bulgaria, which England won 4-0.
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