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Steven Gerrard leads tributes to former Rangers captain Fernando Ricksen

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The former Holland international has died at the age of 43.

Tributes have continued to pour in for former Rangers captain Fernando Ricksen after he died at the age of 43 following a fight against motor neurone disease.

The former Holland international had been battling the illness for six years since receiving the diagnosis in 2013, and Rangers announced his death on Wednesday morning.

Defender Ricksen played over 250 times for the Light Blues after joining from AZ Alkmaar in 2000, winning two league titles during his time in Glasgow.

He remained a firm favourite among the Rangers fans and spent his final months at St Andrew’s Hospice in Airdrie.

Stam, who laid flowers outside Ibrox on Wednesday as he prepares to lead his Feyenoord side against Rangers, said in his press conference: “He was a player that was always willing to fight for everything on the pitch, in his life and within his disease as well.”

Celtic manager Neil Lennon said: “Our condolences go to his family and Glasgow Rangers as well. It’s a huge loss and I have felt it myself, for someone who I played against for a long, long time.”

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