When Liverpool’s players spent a week training in the foothills of the Alps this summer, Alisson Becker revealed himself as a guitarist of reasonable talent. In the dusk of Evian and with the volume on the karaoke system dimmed, the gaucho emerged. Alisson is from Novo Hamburgo in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, a place where German is spoken and the legends are colourful horsemen and their lively cowhands. He reached for the instrument he always carries wherever football takes him and in front of an unfamiliar crowd, released an acoustic version of Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis.
When footballers are asked about meanings or symbolism it can often come across as schmaltz and yet listening to Alisson talk about the sort of experience that by his own admission used to result in his door being bolted, you do sense he is over what happened at Leicester City earlier this month when he tried a Cruyff turn only to be dispossessed. Suddenly, Liverpool’s 2-0 lead had been halved and though his new team would still end up winning, the focus was all on him.
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