Liverpool academy director Alex Inglethorpe says Steven Gerrard is destined to be a "top coach".
Inglethorpe wrote in his column for liverpoolfc.com: "Our first-team manager Brendan Rodgers said Steven is Liverpool last week and that is exactly right as he epitomises just what this great club is all about. Steven has been doing his coaching badges here at the Academy and he always interacts with the players and the staff. There's no doubt about it in my eyes - he will be a top coach.
"We couldn't wish for a better ambassador. This is someone who joined the Academy at the age of eight, played his whole career at Anfield and inspired this club to some wonderful success. Every boy who walks through the doors in Kirkby wants to follow in Steven's footsteps. Our job isn't to create the new Gerrard because that's impossible.
"The job is to create the first door for the next generation and make that pathway for them to work towards playing for the first team one day. There's only one Steven Gerrard and that's what makes him so special."