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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I used to be a goal keeper (and hope to get back to soccer one day), and I never even thought of this.
Sometimes it hurts when you deflect a ball, but I’ve never gotten an injury from it. I’m sure injuries happen and I’ve just been lucky.
There are different ways to stop the ball, you can catch it by bringing it into your stomach, get fingers on it to deflect it (that one hurts the most), use your legs to intercept the ball, stuff like that.
I would also take a guess that the design of the soccer ball helps with the lack of injury. It’s a rubber ball with soft padding on it, inflated with air. So it doesn’t have the mass to do a lot of damage.
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