Steven Gerrard set to captain Liverpool legends in Sydney exhibition match
Former Reds captain will play alongside fellow Anfield favourites Jamie Carragher and Dietmar Hamann
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Your support makes all the difference.Steven Gerrard is in line to captain Liverpool once more for a legends match in Sydney against an Australian ‘best-of’ outfit this Thursday.
The 35-year-old left Anfield last summer for La Galaxy but will skipper a side managed by former Reds manager Gerard Houllier at the ANZ Stadium.
Anfield heroes such as Jamie Carragher, Dietmar Hamann and Luis Garcia are expected to play a part in the occasion.
“When you’ve got that red shirt on and that armband on you’ve got a job to do,” the 35-year-old told Liverpoolfc.com.
“Yes it’s a friendly match and it’s going to be a great occasion but when you are a footballer it’s instilled in you to win, it’s inside and I want to come away from Australia a winner, as simple as that.
“[The dressing room] will be noisy, it will be banter, it will be relaxed and it will be fun, but when the game starts people will play the way they played in their careers.
“There’s a lot of vocal players out there, I’m a bit like that myself once I get on the pitch, so I’m sure there will be a lot of communication, a lot of stick, a lot of banter, but once it starts we want to win the game.”
Gerrard lifted the FA Cup twice, the Football League Cup on three occasions and captained Liverpool to a famous Champions League triumph in 2005.
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