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'Trophies not my main motivation' - Liverpool's Alisson meets Joe Hart

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Alisson Becker's mum, Magali Lino de Souza Becker, was a goalkeeper in handball at school. His late father, Jose Agostinho Becker, played between the posts for his work team.

His great-grandfather was a keeper in amateur football in Novo Hamburgo in Brazil, while his older brother Muriel started out in goal at Internacional.

So the Liverpool and Brazil stopper was probably always destined to be a goalkeeper, even though his "role model" brother tried to talk him out of it at one point.

"My brother knew how hard it was to be a goalkeeper and he told me: 'No, go and play striker, play somewhere else - you will suffer too much,'" Alisson told Joe Hart in an interview for Football Focus.