The long awaited football post - Unsung heroes

After it had been made clear to me that there's a strong demand for football, I decided not to hesitate and post these lines.

Football is the most popular sport in the world. It has some well-known faces - you don't have to be a big fan to know who Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo is. After watching a football match, fans usually remember the goal scorers. But there's the other end of the field, where every team has another very important player.

It is said that you have to be crazy to be a goalkeeper. (Or in some cases, even crazier.) Goalkeepers are usually the unsung heroes of victories, but they're much more overtly blamed for some losses. If a goalkeeper makes a mistake, there's nobody behind him to repair the damage; if he saves, he just did, why he's there. The only exception is the penalty shoot-out, where the roles are just the opposite: scoring there is obvious, missing a penalty is a tragic error, and saving one can make a keeper a real hero, at least for the day. From the next day or league match on, everything is back to the usual ways.

Fortunately, there are many fans, who remember the greatest goalkeeping efforts. Let this video stand here as a song for usually unsung heroes - what song could be better for this than what I like to call simply the best song ever.

(Yeah, the creator missed the last sounds - nothing is perfect.)

Goalkeepers in the video in order: Gordon Banks (England vs. Brazil, "The Save of the Century"), Manuel Neuer (Schalke vs. Duisburg), Peter Schmeichel (Man U vs. Rapid), Hans-Jörg Butt (Leverkusen vs. Hertha), René Higuita (Colombia vs. England, "The Scorpion Kick Save"), Gianluigi Buffon (Parma vs. Inter), Jerzy Dudek (Liverpool vs. Arsenal), Iker Casillas (Real Madrid vs. ???), Petr Cech (Czech Rep. vs. Holland), Manuel Neuer (Schalke vs. Porto), Jussi Jaaskelainen (Bolton vs. Aston Villa), Edwin van der Sar (Holland vs. Czech Rep.), David Seaman (Arsenal vs. Sheffield Utd.), Manuel Neuer (Schalke vs. Hamburg), Shay Given (Newcastle Utd. vs. ???), Antti Niemi (Southampton vs. Aston Villa), Iker Casillas (Real Madrid vs. Atl. Madrid), Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus vs. Milan), Manuel Neuer (Schalke vs. Stuttgart), Iker Casillas (Real Madrid vs. Sevilla)