Goalkeeping Museum

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Name: Amadeo Carrizo DOB: 12/06/1926 Rufino, Argentina Height: 6 Feet 2 Inches / 1.88m Clubs: River Plate (1945-68) – 513 Apps Milonarios (1969-70) – 53 Apps Years Active: 1945-70 Club Appearances: 556 International Appearances: (Argentina) 20 Amadeo Carrizo Profile Amadeo Carrizo is perhaps best remembered as a pioneer of goalkeeping, who set trends that were [...]

Name: František Plánička DOB: 02/06/1904 Prague, Austria-Hungary Height: 5ft 8 Inches / 1.72m Clubs: SK Slavia Prague (1923-39) – 969 Apps Years Active: 1923-39 Club Appearances: 969 International Appearances: (Czechoslovakia) 76 František Plánička Profile If František Plánička came into football in the modern era, there is every chance he would be turned away for being [...]

Name: Ricardo Zamora DOB: 21/01/1901 Barcelona, Spain Height: 6ft 4.5 Inches / 1.94m Clubs: Espanol (1916-19) Barcelona (1919-1922) Espanol (1922-30) Real Madrid (1930-36) Nice (1936-38) Years Active: 1916-1938 Club Appearances: ? International Appearances: (Spain) 46 Ricardo Zamora was a big, tall, controversial goalkeeper who enjoyed great success with a number of clubs in a country [...]

Name: Michel Preud’homme DOB: 24/01/1959 Height: 6ft 0in (1.83m) Clubs: Standard Liege (1977-86) KV Mechelen (1986-94) Benfica (1994-99) Years Active: 1977-1999 Club Appearances: 649 International Appearances: (Belgium) 58 Michel Preud’homme was the first ever winner of the Yashin Award for best goalkeeper in a World Cup in the USA 1994 tournament, which was a fitting [...]

Name: Walter Zenga DOB: 20/04/1960 Height: 6ft 2in (1.88m) Clubs: Salernitana (1978-79) Savona (1979-80) Sambenedetesse (1980-82) Internazionale (1982-94) Sampdoria (1994-96) Padova (1996-97) New England Revolution (1997-99) Years Active: 1978-1999 Club Appearances: 530 International Appearances: (Italy) 58 Walter Zenga, for a number of years at the end of the 1980s and early 1990s was widely regarded [...]

This save is probably one of the most perfect moments captured on film for any goalkeeper: Scottish stopper, Jim Montgomery pulled off the perfect double save at the perfect moment during the 1973 FA Cup Final for Sunderland against Leeds. Watch the save on video above. That this save happened in an FA Cup Final [...]

Saving a penalty is a fine moment for any goalkeeper, at any time. Saving a penalty in a fierce local derby, when your side carries a slender one goal advantage in the third minute of injury time is the stuff of dreams and legend. Colin Doyle, of Birmingham City, had the great fortune of diving [...]