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Nobody dreams of being a backup goalkeeper.

There’s no glamour, no security and, often, no first-team minutes. Especially when you’re sitting behind someone like David Ousted on the depth chart.

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Paolo Tornaghi, the Whitecaps’ No. 2 netminder, knows this all too well because he’s been with the club since 2014 and he’s played a grand total of zero MLS minutes.

Ousted’s been that good and that consistent.

But there’s always hope, and for Tornaghi that takes the form of the Amway Canadian Championship, which will crown a winner Wednesday at B.C. Place (7 p.m., TSN, TSN 1040).

Toronto FC leads 1-0 after the first leg at BMO Field, with away goals the first tie-breaker in this total-goals series.

Last year Caps coach Carl Robinson played Tornaghi in the semifinal series and the first leg of the final but then switched to Ousted for the decisive leg vs. Montreal.

The feel-good storyline here would be for Robinson to tap Tornaghi for Wednesday’s start — the eternal backup thrust into the spotlight in a Cup final.