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Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek cannot imagine leaving Anfield after his penalty shootout heroics helped the team to Champions League victory last week, a Polish magazine reported him as saying on Thursday.
"With this medal around my neck I cannot imagine that I would have to leave this club," Dudek told weekly Przekroj in an interview.
"With that final I fulfilled many people's expectations of me and for sure that will in some way be remembered," he said when asked if his performance against AC Milan in the Istanbul final had saved his neck at Liverpool.
Dudek's "spaghetti legs" antics on the goalline yielded two penalty saves and a missed spot-kick in the shootout that Liverpool won 3-2 to settle the final following a 3-3 draw after extra time. He also made an astonishing double save from striker Andriy Shevchenko in the last minute of extra-time.
Liverpool, however, are widely reported to be close to signing goalkeeper Pepe Reina from Spain's Villarreal, which could mean selling the 32-year-old Polish international two years before the end of his contract.
Dudek flew out of Warsaw on Thursday with Poland's national squad for a World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan.
A win would put the Poles two points ahead of Group Six leaders England with one more game played and on the verge of securing a spot in next year's World Cup finals in Germany.
"Now I think that nothing is impossible. My dream is to go with Poland to the World Cup and fight our way to the quarter-finals. Once we're there everything is down to luck," said Dudek.
| Source: Reuters | June.3rd.2005 |
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