Rob Parker | May 1, 2009
Goalie blasts ball into his net
This quick-thinking goalkeeper was alert when the ball bobbled around in his penalty area and made sure he was first to the loose ball. Unfortunately, once he got there he then smashed it into his own goal.
The footage comes from last night’s Copa do Brasil quarterfinal match between Vasco da [...]
Rob Parker | April 27, 2009
Even Scott Carson’s never managed one like this
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You know when the ball rolls back to the opposition keeper and he stands with at his feet? And your forward eventually goes to the bother of closing him down, and the keeper then picks the ball up? Next time you are going through this monotony, here [...]
Rob Parker | April 17, 2009
The worst punch ever
Here is Paris St Germain goalie Mikael Landreau with an error from a cross that would have had a mid-1990s David James blushing. The French keeper made a half-hearted attempt to punch a cross that had been deflected into the air, and instead gently pushed the ball over his head and into [...]
Rob Parker | February 9, 2009
How not to put your mistakes out of your mind
This bizarre footage from Brazil shows that experience does not necessarily correlate to stability on a football pitch. Sao Paulo’s 35-year-old goalkeeper Rogerio Ceni appeared to have an on-pitch breakdown of some sort after fumbling a cross-cum-shot into his own net. It is a wonder Scott [...]
Rob Parker | November 27, 2008
Colombian keeper gets caught slightly out of position
It’s the age old positional dilemma for any goalkeeper: to rush out to the halfway line or not to rush out to the halfway line. In his long career, 42-year-old Rene Higuita has all too often found himself making the wrong decision. Some things never change with age [...]
Rob Parker | November 13, 2008
Goalkeeper is not strictly accurate. How about goalgiver?
To be fair to Lyon goalkeeper Remy Vercoutre, the backpass he receives in this video is a bit on the short side. Sadly his sidefooted pass to an onrushing FC Metz attacker is inch perfect. D’oh!
Spotted on The Offside
Rob Parker | November 8, 2008
A goalkeeping howler of epic proportions
“Hey, Gennaro. Welcome to goalkeeping school. Lesson one: under no circumstances do you walk across your goalline with the ball in your possession. It’s sort of like doing the opposition’s job for them. Got that?”
Sadly he hadn’t, and this was painfully exposed during Nancy’s Uefa Cup tie with Lech Poznań [...]
