Euro 2012

Steven George Gerrard, MBE (IPA: [ˈdʒɛrɑ:d]; born 30 May 1980 in Whiston, Merseyside) is an English footballer who plays for English Premier League club Liverpool F.C. and the England national team. He is usually employed in the box-to-box midfield role, although he has often been deployed as a right-sided midfielder and occasionally as a second striker. Gerrard, who has spent his entire career at Anfield, won his first UEFA Champions League in 2005 following Liverpool’s comeback in the final.
Height :6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)

Early career

Gerrard started out playing for hometown team Whiston Juniors. He was noticed by Liverpool’s scouts and joined the Reds’ youth academy at the age of nine.[2] Gerrard had trials with various clubs at fourteen, including Manchester United F.C., which he claimed in his 2006 autobiography that this was “to pressure Liverpool into giving me a YTS contract.”[3] He signed his first professional contract with Liverpool on 5 November 1997.[3]
(more…)