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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 as the best goalkeeper in the world, in the middle part of a successful [...]

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 the [...]

Name: Dino Zoff
DOB: 28/02/1942, Mariano del Friuli, Italy
Height: 6ft / 1.83m
Clubs:

Udinese (1961–1963)
Mantova (1963–1967)
Napoli (1967–1972)
Juventus (1972–1983)

Years Active: 1968-1987
Club Appearances: 642
International Appearances: (Italy) 112

Dino Zoff
Dino Zoff was arguably the best goalkeeper of his generation – many still claim he is the best they have ever seen – who’s introduction to the world of Serie A clubs was [...]

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 years. From his early years [...]

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. Cologne used [...]

Name: Bernhard “Bert” Carl Trautmann
Club Appearances: 590 (545 Manchester City, 43 St Helens town, 2 Wellington town)
Height: 6ft 2in – 189.5cm
Date of Birth: 22/10/1922 Bremen, Germany

Biography
Bert Trautmann had a quite remarkable goalkeeping career which began in a prisoner of war camp in Ashton-in-Makerfield and ended, long after, having lifted the FA Cup for [...]