Ex-Liverpool player who married soap star suffered Champions League final agony

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Kewell praised his spouse for supporting his return to soccer following his fitness setbacks: "When things like that break you, you've got to find something inside you to get back. My wife's very strong.

People talk about winning Premierships, they're my four titles there." The Australian confessed that the injury he sustained on the night of the 2005 Champions League final was the darkest period of his career: "I've had 14 operations and the majority were at Liverpool. "You'd have an operation and you think, 'That's it, that's finished now.' I'm going to be brand new again.

"You just want to fight, you just want to be there for your team and get their backs. "People are hammering them and I'm going, 'It's not actually him.' You don't want to be injured, but sometimes you can't get out of that cycle." Kewell, who marked his 47th birthday last week, hung up his boots in 2014 following a stint with Melbourne Heart and most recently held a managerial role at Yokohama F.