Should Goalkeeping Hurt This Good?
I'm hammering away at the keyboard feeling like (possibly even looking like) Doctor Zoidberg from Futurama. This weekend was our first hit up for the season, and let me tell you my body is feeling every little bit my age...29 less 100. Suffering from a fried noggin (yes, you fry in the Aussie sun, you don't get a fancy tan), some weeping grazes that would make the Grand Canyon look timid, and copping a tearing pain in my shoulder after a smashing one to one...I could honestly say I never felt so good!
Now the game was a calamitous riot of soccer (it was not even worth being called football), but I was supercharged by my performance, and I quickly forgot about the pain until long after the game had finished. Going out 2-0 winners, with a lot of rust in the joints, I feel the guys (with some serious hard work) will get into the finals this year...that's me forecasting by the way...I suck at forecasting, just ask my boss!
Some of the key things I learned, and points which you can take away from my own game experience are as follows:
Measure Your Opponent: We played a second division side, and although they could run rings around the rest of the team, we held firm and were constantly in attacking situations (finishing is another story). As a goalkeeper, if you sense that the oppositions attacking capability is lack lustre, play well off your line, even when the opposition is in your half. Playing off your line will allow you to aid your defense and attack more effectively, it also gives a strong sign of confidence in your own ability.
Momentum Is Vital: In one particular one to one situation on the outskirts of my 18 yard box, I quickly attacked the ball before the player had the chance to get to the ball (he got to my shoulder instead, but not the ball). Being able to read the play quickly and acting decisively to attack the ball without halting your progression enhances your strength off the line.
Attacking The Ball At It's Sweet Spot: One corner kick in particular floated beautifully over head to my right, and with good timing and execution I sailed over the attacking player (I actually knocked him down on his behind) and grasped the ball nicely at the point where the ball had tipped over its arc of flight and just began it's descent. With great timing and watching every motion of the ball in it's flight toward the goal is vital in attacking the ball in it's sweet spot of flight during a corner kick.
My kicking game was tighter than it has been, my fitness needed some work after a virus knocked me about for the past two weeks, but the goalkeeping powers that be liked young Johnny on the weekend, and they are making me pay in spades with some pain after games end.
Overall, I feel that sometimes the best games should usually hurt this good, it means you came out of your comfort zone and worked hard to help your team to stay in the game. Hopefully you can take some of the above points I learned during the game and utilize it in your own performance with some success.
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John Stevanja
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