Goalkeeping Museum

Currently considered the best goalkeeper in the world by many, Gianluigi Buffon also sets standards when it comes to goalkeeping dress. During the recent European Championship Qualifier against Scotland, played on a particularly cold and wet Glasgow evening, the Italian goalkeeper set a new trend by wearing a woolen hat, and a bench jacket underneath [...]

1979-1989 In 1979 Manchester United’s league campaign had been its typically inconsistent self, however the one bright spot was the appearance in the FA Cup final against Arsenal. This game marked the climax to a first season for a young man signed from University in South Africa, one Gary Bailey. Standing six feet one and [...]

Name: Peter Leslie Shilton(England) DOB: 18/09/1949 International Appearances: 125 Clubs: Leicester, Stoke, Nottingham Forest, Southampton, Derby County, Plymouth Argyle, Leyton Orient, Coventry City. Years Active: 1965-1996 Born and brought up in post-war Leicester, Peter Shilton’s sole ambition was always to be the best goalkeeper in the world, and he achieved this, perhaps for many consecutive [...]

It has often been suggested that goalkepers tend be rather crazy, haphazard individuals who seem to almost attract strange occurences and injuries, here are some well known accidents and some not so……… In April 1980, West Germany and Schalke goalkeeper Nigbur and his fiancee were dining in Gelsenkirchen, after the meal Nigbur tried to stand [...]

Harald ‘Toni’ Schumacher(West Germany) D.O.B – 06/03/1954. Clubs – 1.FC Koln, Schalke, Fenerbahce, Bayern Munchen, Borussia Dortmund(1973-1996) A goalkeeper who will ultimately bremembered for one moment of madness instead of many moments of greatness. Born in Duren, not far from Cologne, Schumacher joined his boyhood idols 1.FC after serving his apprenticeship as a boiler maker. [...]

Renat Dasaev(Soviet Union) Full Name: Rinat Fayzrakhmanovich Dasayev D.O.B – 13/6/1957. Astrakhan Clubs – Spartak Moscow, Sevilla(1979-1991) Height – 1.87(6’2″) Renat Dasaev, described by many as the finest goalkeeper of the 1980′s, was born in Astrakhan, on the Caspian Sea and played for his home town club until the age of 21, until the day [...]