Gerrard.. the legend of Liverpool who restored the glory of the Rangers

Saudi football stadiums are preparing to receive one of the most prominent English football legends, former Liverpool star Stephen Gerrard, who is close to taking over the task of coaching the Al-Ettifaq team.

Gerrard had arrived in Dammam on Monday to negotiate the English coach’s assumption of the Al-Ettifaq training mission, while the coming hours are expected to reveal the results of the negotiations.

Gerrard – as a player – played a long career with Liverpool that spanned from 1998 to 2015, during which he played more than 500 matches with the team to write his name among the “Reds” legends throughout the team’s history, before concluding his career by playing for the American Los Angeles Galaxy in 2016.

After the end of his career as a player, “Gerrard” turned to training, which he started with the Liverpool Academy in 2017, before he took over training Glasgow Rangers during the period 2018 to 2021, before taking over the task of training Aston Villa in the 2021-2022 season.

Gerrard made history with the Glasgow Rangers, as he led him to crown the league in the 2020-2021 season for the first time in 10 years, knowing that the team achieved the league without any defeat.

In Europe, the team reached the final price of the European League, and bid farewell to Slavia Prague, Czech Republic, with a score of 3-1 on aggregate.

Since taking over in June 2018, Gerrard has led Rangers in 169 matches; They won 111 matches, drew 37 and lost 21.

He also won the Scottish League Coach of the Month award on 7 occasions, including 4 in one season.

Gerrard recorded his first presence in the English Premier League as a “coach” when he assumed the technical leadership of the Aston Villa team in November 2021, where he finished the season in fourteenth place with 45 points, but the team’s results at the beginning of the next season “2022-2023” prompted the administration to dismiss him last October. .