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An association football goalkeeper attempts to make a diving save. In many team sports that involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting opposing shots on goal.
A player doing a keepie-uppie Association football (more commonly known as football or soccer) was first codified in 1863 in England, although games that involved the kicking of a ball were evident considerably earlier. A large number of football-related terms have since emerged to describe various aspects of the sport and its culture. The evolution of the sport has been mirrored by changes in ...
Former Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas – the first goalkeeper ever to keep one hundred international clean sheets (UEFA Euro 2012) The goalkeeper (sometimes written as goal-keeper, abbreviated as GK, keeper, keeps, or goalie) is a position in association football. It is the most specialised position in the sport. [1]
Rogério Ceni has scored more goals than any other goalkeeper. Goals scored by goalkeepers are a somewhat rare event in football. Goalkeepers spend the majority of a match in the penalty area of their own team, a marked area around the goal they are defending in which they can handle the ball, in order to defend their goal. It is highly unusual ...
Goalkeeper is the most defensive position in football. The goalkeeper's main job is to stop the other team from scoring by catching, palming or punching the ball from shots, headers and crosses. Unlike their teammates, goalkeepers typically remain in and around their own penalty area for most of the game.
Cameroon goalkeeper Ange Bawou was sent off for a reckless foul in the 12th minute of second-half stoppage time of the 2023 Women's World Cup qualifying play-offs against Thailand, with Cameroon having already made all their five available substitutes. Ewodo Ekogo played in goal and did not concede in the final 12 minutes of stoppage time of ...
YBA or yba can refer to a number of things: Young British Artists, a movement of British artists in the 1980s and 1990s; Yala language, a language spoken in Ogoja, Nigeria, by ISO 639 code; Young Buddhist Association, an association of Buddhists in the U.S. Banff Airport, an airstrip near Banff, Alberta, Canada, by IATA code
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