Club confirm Liverpool legend’s son will wear same number as his Dad and be in their first-team next season

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The Liverpool academy has become well-known in recent years for bringing through a number of players with famous fathers.

It is a fact within football that just because a youngster is the offspring of a great former player, it will not make them anything special themselves.

However, Liverpool have been doing their best to buck that trend. There are as many as six Liverpool prospects with famous Dads currently within the academy.

Some, such as Jayden Danns and Lewis Koumas have already made been a part of the first-team squad. Hope remains that Keyrol Figueroa and Prince Kobe Cisse could one day do the same.

In the wider world of football, there are plenty of former Liverpool stars who are now getting used to being ‘football Dad’s’, too.

James Carragher given Wigan first-team number

There is of course a current Liverpool player who can boast that his Dad played with the great Diego Maradona. The Mac Allister family are a special one.

But of the six players to have former footballers for fathers in the Liverpool academy, only one of them – Cisse – ever turned out for the Reds.

In terms of Liverpool greats, though, there is one who will be hoping that his son can someday follow in his footsteps.

There are few who can claim to be bigger Liverpool legends than Jamie Carragher. The former centre-back played 737 times for the Reds, spending his whole career at Anfield.

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When his son, James, was born in 2002, Carragher was already a senior Liverpool player of five or six years.

With the Everton allegiances of his youth long gone, the Scouser must have dreamt of young James one day going on to play for the Reds as well.

That wish looked like it may have been on the way to coming true at one stage, with Carragher junior on the books at Liverpool from 2011 to 2017. However, he left to join Wigan aged 15.

From there, Carragher – who is also a centre-back – has been on-loan with Oldham and Inverness. And now, as per Wigan’s official X account, James has been included in the Latics squad for the new season, wearing the No.23 shirt his Dad became famous for.

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It’s nice to see Carragher’s son taking after his old man. Hopefully he can now push on in what has been a slightly injury-hit young career so far.

And the defender is not the only reason for Liverpool fans to be keeping an eye on Wigan this season.

The League One side have taken full-backs Calvin Ramsay and Luke Chambers on-loan from the Reds for the campaign.

Down as numbers two and three on the squad list, it looks likely that Ramsay and Chambers will be Shaun Maloney’s first-choice left and right-backs.

If Carragher can force his way into the side, we could see three players who have spent time in the Liverpool academy in the back line. Good luck, James!