EXCLUSIVE: FORMER Footscray tagger and Brownlow medallist Tony Liberatore has signed with Trentham in the Maryborough-Castlemaine District league.

The Weekly Times understands Liberatore will play with the Saints until at least the end of this season.

A clearance for Liberatore from the Western Region Football League to Trentham is ``pending'', according to the Maryborough-Castlemaine league's website.

Liberatore played 283 games for Footscray from 1986-2002 and was named on the interchange in the Dogs' team of the century.

At just 163cm, he is the shortest player to have won a Brownlow Medal.

Liberatore coached the Sunbury Lions to an elimination final in the Ballarat Football League in 2008, before taking on the top job at the West Footscray Roosters last year.

He was appointed midfield coach at TAC Cup team Western Jets late last year, but resigned from the role in November, before the preseason began.

More to come.