Saudi Arabia has landed another football icon after Liverpool♚ great Steven Gerrard was hired 🦩as manager of Al-Ettifaq on Monday.
The former England captain is the latest star name to be lured⛦ to the oil-rich💜 kingdom as it embarks on an ever-expanding recruitment drive.
Gerrard, who has managed Scottish club 🐲Rangers and Premier League side Aston Villa since retiring as a player, f♍ollows another former Liverpool star, Robbie Fowler, who was hired by Al-Qadisiyah last week.
“Here is t💙he source of the legends,” Al-Ettifaq tweeted. “We’re thrilled to announce Steven Gerrard is 𒊎our new head coach.”
Gerrard hasn’t managed a team sꩲince being fi🎃red by Villa last season when the club was just one place above the Premier League relegation zone.
It brought an abrupt halt to 🦋a coaching career that looked set to soar after Gerrard led Rangers to tꦐhe Scottish league title in 2021 and broke Celtic’s streak of nine championships on the run.
Before joining Villa, he had been tipped to be a future Liverpool man♌ager and a successor to Jurgen Klopp.
Al-Ettifaq, which plays in the lucrative Saudi Pro League, is yet to sign a major player in an offseason that has seen Karim Benzema, N’Golo Kante and a number of stars from Europe’s top leagu꧑es head ♚to the country to join Cristiano Ronaldo, who signed for Al-Nassr in January.
As a player, Gerrard won many of football's biggest club trophies, including the Champions League with Liverpool 🀅in 2005. He won seven more major cups during a highly-decorated career, but never lifted the Premier League title.
