Goalkeeping Greats

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Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 Time: 9:36 PM
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Gordon Banks
Thought by many to be the greatest goalkeeper of all time, Gordon Banks will forever be identified for his save from Pele's header in the course of the 1970 World Cup Finals. Yet those who saw Banks play knew he was worthy of duplicating such an exploit on a nippy December afternoon when all that was at stake was two points. He wasn't just great - he was always on top of his game and a Banks' howler was very extraordinary indeed.

Peter Shilton
One of the ace, consumed players, Peter Shilton set out to develop into the superior goalkeeper of all time. Folklore has it that on being told he might not make the standard because he wasn't tall enough, Shilton went home and began a training regime that involved spending hours at a time hanging from the stairs in experiment to add inches to his skeleton. He wanted it that greatly.

Peter Schmeichel
This Danish great goalie was very notorious for his acrobatic movement in the field. He is the highest capped player for Denmark with his 129 international matches. He spent his golden time of his club career with famous English premier League club man utd where he played 292 matches. He won the 1992 European Championship with his homeland Denmark. He became the 'World's Best Goalie' for two times. He also led his homeland for 30 matches as captain. He won the European Cup with man utd. He is a member of the English Football Hall of Fame.

Sepp Maier
Maier is another exceptional battler under the goal bar. This great player of West Germany was very functioning in the field and his supple movement made him an instant titan for the opposition strikers and wingers. In 1974 he helped Germany to win the world cup on their soil. In the tournament he would finish four matches with clean sheet out of seven matches. He played for Bayern Munich for his complete career where he played in successive 422 matches which is still an achievement for German football league. He won four West German leagues and three european cups with Bayern Munich. Later after his retirement form football he has been a goalie coach for Germany national squad.

Lev Yashin
Famous for unceasingly wearing a distinguishing all-black strip when playing, Yashin is one of the small number of goal keepers who could actually compete with Gordon Banks for the salutation of champion goalkeeper of all-time.

Pat Jennings
If ever there was a goal keeper that could be personified as atypical of the breed, it was Pat Jennings. Eccentric, unruffled, honorable and amiable, Jennings mastered his penalty box with an air of casualness and calmness that would humiliate Peter Schmeichel into retirement. Yet despite never receiving any orderly kind of coaching - or even because of it - he become one of the greatest goalkeepers the game has ever seen.

Dino Zoff
Dino Zoff is an Italian celebrated soccer goal keeper and the most aged ever winner of the World Cup as a skipper of the Italian national squad in Spain in the 1982 World Cup. Zoff spent most of his career at Juventus. He holds the record for the longest stretch (1142 minutes) without allowing any goals.

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