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Liverpool youngster Pacheco using Gerrard as role model

Liverpool striker Dani Pacheco admits he looks to skipper Steven Gerrard as his role-model.

Pacheco knows he'll have to keep working hard to get a regular place in the first team.

"Everyone can improve. Every day," insists Pacheco in LFC Weekly. "When you're 19 and you see Stevie trying to improve himself in training - with his left foot for example or maybe heading. If a player like him tries to improve, you realise how far you have to go if you want to reach the top."

It's not only Gerrard's hard work that impresses Pacheco though. The skipper's versatility is also an admirable quality that the diminutive attacker aims to replicate.

"We are completely different physically and I am not comparing myself to him because he is one of Liverpool's greatest players," adds Pacheco. "But I know I can play a role in the team - try to help them - from that position (behind the striker).

"I have played a lot on the left and right for both Liverpool and Spain over the last few years and I will always play wherever the manager wants me to play. I understand Stevie has been everywhere for Liverpool - right-back, left-back, across the midfield and further forward. He is as complete as you can get now and there is so much I can learn from him."

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