I played GK about a year ago. Some guy decided to do a preety powerful shot at like 20 yards away. I defended it. 5 minutes later a ambulance is carrying me to the ER cause of 2 fractured bones at my wrist, and i had to wear a cast for a month.
Now i watch some matches of football, with GK’s defending shots from like half a meter away going at like 80km/h with absolutely no harm or anything.
I get adrenaline is a big painkiller and i’m not the most in-shape guy, while they are athlethes, but you’re telling me a shot from 20 yards broke my hand and yet a shot from 10 centimeters has no efect on them?
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A lot of talk here about training etc but that’s all irrelevant. Goalkeepers aren’t the only people that get hit, it happens all the time but the ball is a big bag of air and it’s not very heavy so you have to be unlucky for it to actually hurt you. You don’t need years of training to learn how to take hits etc. Most impacts at full speed will be by defenders blocking shots anyway. The ball has usually slowed down substantially by the time it reaches the goalkeeper.
I’ve played 1000s of games of football and I’ve only seen 1 broken bone from the impact of a ball and that was when I had a shot and it hit a friend on his finger (not playing in goal).
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