Are Goalkeepers Really Crazy?
If you're a goalkeeper, and you're reading this, then you're probably crazy...in a good way I might add. You may have been called a little weird, a tad loopy or just plain bananas from your team mates and fans. Again, it's completely sane to be insane as a goalkeeper. In fact, goalkeeping requires large doses of "crazy" to get you through the game and it is a completely healthy thing.
From Higuita to Schumacher in his day (any defender out there up for two knocked out front teeth?) or Grobbelaar with his "wobbly legs" dance, goalkeepers have utilized mad men mentality to get them through the intensity and pressure of the game. Who else would put their head in the way off an attackers boot? Yes, we do some crazy things as goalkeepers. But being individuals, and playing a role that is apart from every other player's game on the field helps add fuel to the fire.
Again, the craziness that is goalkeeping is a good fire to fuel. Without pushing oneself out of their confines, how does one grow? Sounds very philosophical doesn't it, but resonates a truth to the art form. Being able to be "different" gives the goalkeeper abilities that extend well beyond the field of play. Having to train with a different frame of mind, and having unique abilities that are apart from your team mates can transcend off the field as well.
So here here to being a "crazy" goalkeeper. Being a little bad from time to time, getting aggressive to win at all costs are hallmarks of great goalkeepers. I've never seen a great goalkeeper who won by always "being" nice, or whom has not competed intensely to grab hold of the number one jersey. Being nice all the time won't score you browny points on the field or off it in the real world.
Goalkeepers are a little crazy, and rightly so. I'll leave you with a great penalty save from one crazy Swede Thomas Ravelli, this guy was one great goalkeeper on the field, and generally one crazy dude off it. Enjoy.
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John Stevanja
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