gorgeous football

Chapter 261 Penalty Shootout (1)

Of course, when it comes to penalty kicks, the goalkeeper has to be mentioned. In football, the goalkeeper is definitely a position that cannot be ignored, but there are not many goalkeepers who can be truly remembered. It’s not that they are not good enough, but the presence of goalkeepers.

In 1994, FIFA established the World Cup Best Goalkeeper Award for the first time to honor the best goalkeeper in each World Cup.He participated in 812 games in his lifetime, kept 480 clean sheets and saved 150 penalties.

Yashin was born in Moscow on October 1929, 10, the son of a factory worker. In 22, due to the impact of World War II, the Yashin family moved to Voskresenk. At the age of 1943, Yashin entered the factory with his father and became an apprentice.While working, Yashin continued his sports hobbies, ice hockey and football being his favourites.

After the end of the war in 1945, 16-year-old Yashin embarked on the road of movement.There are two paths before him: play football or play ice hockey.You must know that Yashin's ice hockey level has reached a very high level, for which he was also awarded the title of Soviet athlete.In the end, a gracious invitation from the coach of the USSR national football team, Semy Chastner, paid off, and Yashin made one of the most important decisions of his life: to go goalkeeping on a soccer field.

This decision ultimately led to a legendary goalkeeper.In his 26-year career as a goalkeeper, Yashin has been playing for Dynamo Moscow. He has played 326 games and represented the Soviet team 78 times. In 1956, he helped the Soviet team win the Olympic gold medal. In 1958, he entered the World Cup quarter-finals with the team and was elected as the best goalkeeper. In 1960, the Soviet team won the European Cup. In 1963, Yashin was elected as the European Footballer of the Year. This is the only goalkeeper who has won this honor so far.Another amazing record about Yashin is that in his football career, he saved a total of 98 penalties.

There is only one goalkeeper who can win the European Footballer of the Year. Yes, there are very few goalkeepers, but you have to understand who has won this honor. You can understand that such an important award falls on him, which is enough to prove the importance of the goalkeeper.

But if you think that Yashin is the goalkeeper of the era of reason after all, then think of Leuer.

On October 2014, 10, he was shortlisted for the 28 Golden Globe Award. In August 2014, he was shortlisted for the 2017 World Footballer of the Year. On September 8, 2017, he was shortlisted for the 2017 Golden Foot Award. If it weren't for Ronaldo, he might be the second goalkeeper to receive such an honor.

He almost redefined what a goalkeeper is and let the world understand that besides a goalkeeper, he is still a goalkeeper, a goalkeeper who even has a desire for a striker.

Of course, the excellent goalkeeper is self-evident. A good goalkeeper can even help a team win. Other teams may not feel so obvious, but if Manchester United players dare to tell their goalkeeper that they don’t need him like this, they will probably be beaten to death. De Gea is undoubtedly excellent.

Needless to say, the importance of the goalkeeper is also Manchester United's right to speak. Of course, the German team also has the right to speak. It has to be said that their excellent performance over the years has a lot to do with their two world-class goalkeepers. De Gea's goal-line skills make Manchester United's defenders a little ashamed. She has no temper at all when hitting the back door with her skills. Needless to say, Leuer can be called a goalkeeper.

But it has to be said separately that an excellent team has an excellent goalkeeper is mutual achievement. The status of the goalkeeper is not too high among all teams, and the salary is naturally not too high, but a good goalkeeper will never be forgotten. Buffon, Petr Cech, Leuer... A group of excellent goalkeepers can always make the fans call their names.

But it is normal to say that the goalkeeper has a low sense of presence in normal times, but there are always times when the goalkeeper shines, that's right!When it comes to penalty kicks, especially in the World Series, there is only one real protagonist in the penalty shootout, and that is the goalkeeper.

Ricardo is a goalkeeper trained by the youth team of Porto Boavista Football Club. He entered the club's senior team in 1995 and played 1996 times for Boavista from 1997 to 16. He won the Portuguese Cup with the team.From 1997 to 1998 season, he became the team's main goalkeeper, but he won the league title for the first time until 2001, Boavista finally overwhelmed the city's rival Porto Football Club to win the title. In the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 2004, he became famous in the penalty shootout with England.

If it is said that shooting makes a striker famous, then saving a penalty kick is the greatest meaning of the goalkeeper's existence.

And now the penalty shootout is the time to prove who is the best goalkeeper between Jianghai High School and Shangou Middle School.

"To be honest, I didn't expect the two teams to hit a penalty shootout now. The penalty shootout is definitely the most exciting time of the game, but it is also the most unacceptable level. For the players on both sides, the pressure is too great! Especially the goalkeepers, the two teams that have never experienced a penalty shootout, are now playing to this level. For these young goalkeepers, it is an opportunity and a kind of hardship!"

The first penalty shootout was still such an important game. Perhaps in their game experience, they may have saved more penalties today than in the league. This is indeed too tragic for young goalkeepers like them. Everyone knows how much pressure they will bear if they do not perform well in such a game. Magic, after passing this level and playing with confidence, he may be an excellent goalkeeper, but if there are really mistakes, even such a game may ruin their careers for goalkeepers.

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