<img title="Xabi Alonso" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/apr/19Xabi-Alonso.jpg" alt="Xabi Alonso" /> Xabi Alonso
Ex-Liverpool man Xabi Alonso revealed that he had refused to travel to Italy to face Inter Milan in 2008 because his wife Nagore Aramburu was in labour.
<img title="Nagore Aramburu" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/apr/19Nagore-Aramburu.jpg" alt="Nagore Aramburu" /> Nagore Aramburu
The 35-year-old, who moved from Liverpool to Real Madrid 10 months later, skipped an important Champions League quarter-final encounter to witness the birth of his son Jontxu (9). "My wife was in labour, and I told Rafael Ben&iacute;tez (then Liverpool manager) that I could not go like this. I would go when everything was fine," Alonso told Spanish paper El Pais.
"I had to make a decision and decided to be with my family. It was not easy, my job is not a normal one and it was not just any game, but I never regretted it."

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