Liverpool icon Steven Gerrard described the “buzz” of taking part in at Anfield having stepped onto the fabled pitch for a charity match, admitting there will probably be much less and fewer alternative to take action sooner or later
Gerrard was a part of a Liverpool Legends aspect that received 4-2 towards a group of Ajax Legends, with Sven-Goran Eriksson managing the Reds to permit him to fulfil a lifelong ambition within the wake of the Swede making his terminal most cancers prognosis public earlier this 12 months.
43-year-old Gerrard, who hung up his boots in 2016 after a brief spell at LA Galaxy, parked his day job as supervisor of Al Ettifaq within the Saudi Professional League to show again the clock.
“There’s three issues. You need to come and play along with your mates once more. You clearly need to come for the trigger, to assist elevate as a lot cash. However the alternative to play in entrance of those followers once more, that’s the thrill,” he mentioned, through Liverpool’s official web site
“I used to be on the flight [from Saudi Arabia], I used to be like a giant child coming over. Six-and-a-half-hour flight, I could not wait to get right here. That is what it is all about.
“I do know I am solely going to play in entrance of this crowd one other couple of occasions perhaps. That is if I keep off the carbs and keep off the beers! I used to be simply trying spherical on the finish pondering to myself, ‘That is going to [happen] much less and fewer so simply savour each second.’ It was good.”
Gerrard went on to mirror on simply how “highly effective” the Anfield crowd will be.
“It is all the time been incredible,” he mentioned. “When this crowd get going, particularly in night time video games, it is a highly effective crowd. Clearly they’re constructing the capability as we go alongside, it was 59,000. And I feel they helped us flip the sport round. 2-0 down at half-time however we felt it was towards the run of play. We needed to get the subsequent aim and I assumed the lads have been terrific second half.
“It is all for an excellent trigger, we have got to recollect why we’re right here. There’s going to be some huge cash raised going to go to some incredible causes. Sven being right here was very particular; as quickly as I knew he was going to be the gaffer, I could not wait to return and play for him another time.”
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