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whoovesthedoctor ONLINE (05/13/2013) [-] 
I play as a goalkeeper for my schools soccer team i can confirm this is 100% legitimate.
The approach to the ball, being about 2 paces to the left and 5 paces back, is the optimal approach for maximum power and accuracy aiming for the top left.
The kickers left hip opens to the left making any shot other than to the left an awkward one.
The left foot is completely planted to the left before it rolls onto the toes, the keeper saw that plant and added it to the likelihood the shot would go left.
And of course the #1 thing to look for is where they kicker is looking, in the approach the kicker glances at the left post and then at the ball.
perhaps the most innacurate part of this is that the goalkeeper should not be completely centered. Most people have a dominant leg that they can dive faster and farther off of. The keeper should be farther from this side of the goal (maybe 4 -6 inches) to compensate for the weaker side.
a penalty kick at the professional level cannot be about reacting to the ball, the power put into the ball will make any reaction time too late. Instead it is a battle of minds on who can read their opponent better, in this case, the penalty kicker won.
The approach to the ball, being about 2 paces to the left and 5 paces back, is the optimal approach for maximum power and accuracy aiming for the top left.
The kickers left hip opens to the left making any shot other than to the left an awkward one.
The left foot is completely planted to the left before it rolls onto the toes, the keeper saw that plant and added it to the likelihood the shot would go left.
And of course the #1 thing to look for is where they kicker is looking, in the approach the kicker glances at the left post and then at the ball.
perhaps the most innacurate part of this is that the goalkeeper should not be completely centered. Most people have a dominant leg that they can dive faster and farther off of. The keeper should be farther from this side of the goal (maybe 4 -6 inches) to compensate for the weaker side.
a penalty kick at the professional level cannot be about reacting to the ball, the power put into the ball will make any reaction time too late. Instead it is a battle of minds on who can read their opponent better, in this case, the penalty kicker won.
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fukkendragonite (05/14/2013) [-] Are you American?
I think this explains why you Americans have produced such great goakeepers (Brad Friedel, Tim Howard, Brad Guzan, Kasey Keller to name just a few modern ones)
I think this explains why you Americans have produced such great goakeepers (Brad Friedel, Tim Howard, Brad Guzan, Kasey Keller to name just a few modern ones)
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fukkendragonite (05/14/2013) [-] yeah, but as I said below, it's decent from a country like USA which isn't really a footballing nation.
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fukkendragonite (05/14/2013) [-] I never said that they were the best at producing keepers haha. Germany are good for it too. But then Germany is much more of a footballing nation than America is, so that's why the American goalkeepers thing is so weird.
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ColonelHansLanda (05/14/2013) [-]
The problem is the ball's defiance of physics not Carlos Tevez' run to the ball. Also I'm aware that the ball's movement could maybe be proved but it looks unnatural. Also, a little word to the wise, no one pays attention to someone's views on football when they call it soccer.
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ColonelHansLanda (05/14/2013) [-]
refer to my statement where I just said "it could maybe be proved but it looks unnatural." I'm an engineer, I've studied motion.
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ColonelHansLanda (05/16/2013) [-]
yes, well I'm studying engineering. That ball looks unnatural hence why it's been posted on here as a funny picture.
