Liverpool link up with left-back Dossena
Friday, July 4, 2008
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Liverpool FC have signed Udinese Calcio left-back Andrea Dossena with the 26-year-old signing a contract running until 2012 to replace John Arne Riise.
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Riise replacement
Dossena, capped once by Italy against South Africa in October 2007, joins the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round entrants, who said on their official website: "He is seen as the ideal replacement for John Arne Riise, who departed for [AS] Roma earlier this month." The defender joined Udinese in 2005 Hellas-Verona FC and after a loan season at Treviso FBC makde his Stadio Friuli breakthrough.
