Steven Gerrard net worth, biography and football career

Can you imagine a different Liverpool idol than The Beatles? Well, Steven Gerrard (May 30, 1980, Liverpool, England) is one of them. This English footballer was known for three things: being so versatile as to play in all positions in the midfield, wearing his club’s shirt in more than 700 games, and winning a UEFA Champions League comeback 0-3 against AC Milan. If you want to know more about him, continue reading this biography and net worth of Steven Gerrard.

Arrival at the Liverpool children’s club and debut in the Premier

Steven was a very intelligent soccer player who began to take his first steps in an amateur team from his hometown. Despite his young age, he understood the game’s concepts very well, and at 9 years old, he was signed by the scouts of Liverpool FC, of the Premier League, for the lower categories of the club. He started playing as a striker, but one of his coaches at age 13 decided to delay him to midfield.

The years passed and Gerrard focused on his dream of succeeding with Liverpool and obtaining as many titles as possible. In November 1998, he debuted with the first team in a league match and later achieved his first start at just 18 years old.

At the end of the 1999-2000 season, he suffered a terrible injury that kept him away from the playing fields and made him have to undergo surgery up to 4 times. However, tough situations are for tough people, and Gerrard would demonstrate that adversities were made for him to overcome in his own way.

In 2001, at the age of 21, he made one of his best seasons, playing more than 30 games as a starter in which he scored 10 goals, a rare figure for a midfielder. He demonstrated his versatility and a powerful shot that would earn him recognition as one of the greatest shooters in world football, and that would also lead him to win the award for Best Player in the Premier League that same year.

The following seasons served to establish him as one of the team’s best players, being recognized multiple times as the best midfielder in the Premier League. By 2004, Gerrard was already a benchmark and idol of the Red hobby.

The Istanbul Miracle

Liverpool’s 2004-2005 season was a real roller coaster, with several failures that led him to refrain once again from winning the Premier League, a trophy that they have not lifted since 1990, too long for what was then the most successful team of the competition. However, in the UEFA Champions League, the story was different.

They reached the UCL final after eliminating Chelsea in the semifinals, who was just proclaimed Premier Champion that year. In it, they face AC Milan in what is considered the best final in the tournament’s history.

Net worth

According to the FIFA records and other reports, Steven Gerrard’s net worth is about 90 million US dollars. He played in all teams as a mid-fielder or second striker.  Steven Gerrard never had a chance to win a title with the England team.

The match could not have started worse for the Reds, who saw how in minute 2 of the game, Maldini put the Italians ahead, and later Crespo would score 2-0 and 3-0 in less than 30 minutes. But soccer is Russian roulette, and starting the second half, we would see Gerrard in God mode, connecting a header that put 3-1 on the scoreboard.

Minutes later, his teammates scored the 2-3 and the fear on the faces of the Milan players was a true poem. Later, Steve rubs the lamp again and sneaks into the rival area, getting Gennaro Gattuso to make a penalty that Xabi Alonso would change for the draw; 3-3 and the whole world was left with a poker face. Liverpool became champion of that final on penalties with a superb performance by their goalkeeper Dudek, who stopped two shots.

After the final, Gerrard is established as one of the best players in the world. Two years later, soccer allowed him to reach a Champions League final again (Athens, 2007) against the same rival, but on that occasion, the Italians would get their revenge.

Liverpool crisis and retirement of Steven Gerrard as a player

The following years Liverpool entered an institutional and sports crisis in which the low performance of their figures, including Gerrard, led to decline. From 2009 to 2013, he did not even go back to qualify for the Champions League. During this time, Steven’s injuries returned, which would keep him out of play for many games each season.

In 2015 he announced that he was leaving the club to finish his sports career in the United States, where he retired playing for the Los Angeles Galaxy in 2016. But Steven’s life would not stray from football, since in 2018 he returns to the fields, but as a Rangers coach.