After a life spent in the colors of Liverpool, Steven Gerrard will play his final home game with Liverpool on Saturday. The Crystal Palace came to Anfield is a pretext to celebrate the popular midfield.
“Steve Gerrard, Gerrard, he’ll pass the ball forty yards! He’s big and he’s fucking hard, Steve Gerrard, Gerrard!” (“It will make passes to 35 meters. It is massive and hard fucking, Steve Gerrard”) No doubt this song in praise of the Liverpool captain will sound louder than ever, Saturday afternoon, in the Anfield span.
Steven Gerrard, 34, will play his last home game in the colors Reds before flying to the United States and Los Angeles Galaxy. At a time when the stars of world football club in changing a wink soon as a higher salary or different challenges they are offered, the England midfielder has been faithful to the homeland liverpuldienne against all odds. At the club since the age of 9 years, “Stevie-G” has seen it all, or almost in the ranks scousers between seasons in the soft underbelly exercises and successful.
Obviously, Liverpool fans will remember this victory in the Champions League against Milan in 2005 after a historic rise, or this magnificent 2001 under the orders of his mentor Gérard Houllier with four trophies at the keys. His detractors recall that has never won the Premier League, and even he did lose the Reds last year due to an unfortunate slip. But all the surveys of longtime supporters confirm this: the child of the country (he was born 10 kilometers of Anfield Road) is the player who has the most marked before myths like Kenny Dalglish, Ian Rush or Kevin Keagan.
This is probably because their elders, they have always evolved within gifted and dominating teams that red people have a preference for Gerrard. The number 8 stood firm for several years, while the major European teams were ready to empty their coffers for his services. Despite some doubts and hesitations that he never tried to hide, the former England international (114 caps, 21 goals) has proudly wore the jersey of Liverpool at each of its outputs, embodying the box-to-box with footballer shine. No real road out in his private life came tarnish the character, except for a fight in a bar in 2009, and as Jamie Carragher has explained in one of his columns on Sky Sports, “Steven is a model for young people and all here dream of becoming Gerrard” .
“I’m going to head up being proud of what I have done here. I grew up in Liverpool dreaming of representing the club. I never thought to live it all. It’s very complicated since I announced my departure and it will be even more so when leave everything I have behind me here “, said the person on the BBC. That time has arrived and there is a safe bet that the 45,000 spectators present for the farewell face Crystal Palace will do everything to make it unique and unforgettable for one of their own.
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