I Want To Make The Most Of My Career - Gerrard

[Folami David]

Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard admits he is "scared" about entering the final stages of his career. Greek side Olympiakos are the visitors to Anfield on Saturday to celebrate Gerrard's 15 years as a professional at Liverpool.
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"It does scare me to be in the final stages but I also just want to make the most of it," he told BBC Sport.
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The 33-year-old has also said his aim is to restore the club's Champions League status.
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Gerrard signed a new deal to keep him at the club past his 35th birthday in July, having already made 630 appearances for the club since making his debut in 1998.
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"I have two years signed and I want to make the most of those - who knows, I might even extend them. further. We will have to wait and see," said the one-club man.
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"We finished last season really strongly, in the last five months we showed Champions League form so the manager has asked us to continue where we left off and hopefully we can put a better challenge in for the top four places.
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"While I've still got a couple of years left I have to make the most of it. And that is about adding more medals to what I already have and to leave this club in the Champions League. That is the challenge for me personally."
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Liverpool last played in the Champions League in 2009 and, after only finishing seventh last season, Gerrard has stressed the importance of helping the club back towards the top four.
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"All you can do is give everything on the pitch. If all the players in our dressing room do that we can put in a better challenge than we have done over the last few years.
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"We need to break back into the top four to get back the pull we had four or five years ago when we were comfortably in the Champions League year in, year out and challenging to win it.
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"Players who come and get the club back into the Champions League will experience some of the biggest nights of their career, because playing European football in front of this crowd is different to any other."
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Gerrard rates his late goal against Olympiakos in December 2004, which put Liverpool into the Champions League knockout stages, as among his top three strikes.

[Shola Sholaz]

Of course this is what so many footballer pray for all the time. A football career is once in a lifetime so it must be memorable.