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Courage

"Maybe in my next life I will be a number nine and miss five chances but stick one in and be a hero.  It's great. A goalkeeper can't let five in and save one to be a hero. You understand that from day one. When I look at the best goalkeepers in the world, success doesn't matter to them, failure doesn't matter to them. They just do their job."

The above quote from Tim Howard via the Liverpool Echo and ESPN came at a time when it seemed every GK on earth was making errors.  A small sampling below, helpful for meditating on the guts required to be a GK, the comfort level one needs to handle the devastating effects of even small errors, and the confidence and resilience necessary to get back to work after such moments.

First the Philly Union saw their playoff hopes pretty well sunk as a result of this error by new GK Rais Mbolhi (skip to 4.32 mark for the play):

Tough to watch.

Then there's this from the number one college team in the nation, Notre Dame, at home to Boston College:

Blame that on the Center Back...but the GK is half the communication problem there, so...

NC State said "thanks!" to another top ten team in Louisville for this GK gift of a goal (about 30 seconds into the film):

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