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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Theo Squires

Rafa Benitez signing tore up Liverpool contract before playing with David Villa and creating history

Liverpool had goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher to thank when they won the League Cup final in February, with the Republic of Ireland international scoring from the spot as Jurgen Klopp's beat Chelsea on penalties after a mammoth penalty shoot-out. While they'll be continuing their quadruple challenge at home to Watford this weekend, Wembley is hosting another major and the stage is set for one former Red to be the hero.

Signed by Rafa Benitez in 2007, goalkeeper Dean Bouzanis cancelled his Liverpool contract a year early in search of first-team football in 2011, and has enjoyed a varied career over the past decade with stints in the lower leagues of English football, Greece, the Netherlands and his native Australia.

Now first-choice at League Two side Sutton United, he helped them claim an historic first-ever promotion to the Football League last season, and they remain in the play-off picture heading into the final two months of the season. But he could make history again this weekend as Sutton travel to Wembley for the EFL Trophy final.

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