Hughie McAuley became Steven Gerrard’s coach when the skipper was just eight years old and since then he has watched him blossom into one of Liverpool’s greatest players.
Nowadays the two are close friends and have worked together to organise football camps in Gerrard’s childhood home of Huyton with the Steven Gerrard Foundation.
And earlier this week McAuley sat down with Liverpoolfc.com to reflect on Stevie’s landmark 600th appearance for the Reds and to reminisce about Gerrard’s remarkable journey from Academy starlet to Liverpool legend. You can read the full interview via this link:
http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/latest-news/mcauley-i-knew-he-was-a-leader