Manuel NEUER

THE MAGAZINE FOR THE GOALKEEPING PROFESSION © SPRING 2015 Manuel NEUER Kid Gloves The stars of the future On the Move Summary of the latest GK transfers Also featuring: Equipment Gordon Banks OBE All the latest goalkeeping products Gary Bailey How to Save a Penalty Business Pages Robert Green Key developments affecting the professional keeper The Polish GK Factory John Ruddy – Norwich City FC & England Welcome to The magazine exclusively for the professional goalkeeping community. Welcome to the spring 2015 edition of proud to deliver another issue of a magazine Editor’s note GK1 – the magazine exclusively for the dedicated entirely to the art of goalkeeping. professional goalkeeping community. GK1 covers the key elements required With the endorsement of the leading of a professional goalkeeper, with coaching players, key brands, glove and equipment features, equipment updates and an in- Andy Evans / Editor-in-Chief of GK1 and Chairman of World In Motion ltd suppliers, coaches and managers alike we are depth summary of the key transfers. The magazine also includes features covering the uniqueness of the goalkeeper to a football team with ‘Kid Gloves’ promoting the countries’ up and coming starlets; ‘Outside the Box’, focusing on life after football, and many other goalkeeper specific topics. In ‘The Business Pages’ GK1 offers a summary of the key developments, contractual, legal, financial and administrative to affect the professional goalkeeper. We are always at hand to offer advice to the goalkeeping community. GK1 is a magazine for the goalkeeping profession. We actively encourage your contribution, please feel free to contact us with your suggestions as to how we can improve YOUR magazine. GK1 is published by World in Motion ltd, a leading global management company and the UK’s foremost agency for professional goalkeepers. CONTENTS GK1 Management, Chancery House, Coaching Corner 4 On the move 16 1 Lochaline Street, London, W6 9SJ Featuring: All the latest transfer news [email protected] Art or science? How did he do that? 22 Tel: +(44) 208 741 6060 an indispensible guide to saving The greatest saves of all time a spot kick Exclusive Interview: 24 www.gk1.co.uk Kid Gloves 8 Safe as the Banks of England Publisher: World In Motion ltd The stars of the future Gordon Banks OBE Editor-in-Chief: Andy Evans Polished in Poland 10 News in brief 27 The rising stars of Polish goalkeeping Outside the box 28 Deputy Editor: Jordan Hughes The Business Pages 12 Ex-England stopper Gary Bailey Commercial Editor: William Featuring: Meet the team 32 Pethybridge Premier League TV rights deal World in Motion personnel Features Editor: Rob Dakin Essential Equipment 14 Health and fitness 34 The latest goalkeeping products Pilates with Robert Green Graphic Design: Tim Alexander #safehands SPRING 2015 3 COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING Saving Penalties Art or Science? Some say it’s an art, others insist it’s a precise discipline. Either way, this month, GK1 looks at the evidence to see if there really is an indispensible guide to saving a spot kick. COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER he casino barons of Las Vegas wearing red and then had the same ‘keeper couldn’t get away with loading change his shirt to a coloured one. After the dice against you as much all the penalties had been taken he saw as this! For heaven’s sake, that only 54% of penalties were scored The’s only 12 yards away! No defenders against the keeper in red as opposed to to worry about, time on his side and 69%, 72% and 75% against ‘keepers wearing just you, with a hope and the occasional yellow, blue and green shirts respectively. prayer to stop what four times out of five, Considering only 20% of all penalties are is the inevitable...a goal. saved in professional football this increase in The boffins working on behalf of the save percentage by wearing red is certainly penalty takers reckon they’ve devised the not to be sniffed at. But, red is not a colour perfect penalty: one which no keeper, commonly worn by goalkeepers in England. however agile, however focused, however In the 2010/11 Premier League season no lucky, has the proverbial ‘cat in hell’s chance’ goalkeeper wore red. of saving! Sadly, having worn red winning the All it takes is a run up of 5 or 6 paces, World Cup back in 1966, it’s likely to be a approaching the ball at an angle of 20 to 30 long time before England’s GK1 wears red! degrees, kicking it at 65 mph, crossing the line 50 cms below crossbar and inside the Stand Off-Centre post, unstoppable! In theory it makes no sense... Well, with all due respect, GK1 scoffs at 2 but every keeper’s tried a the theory of a perfect penalty! Our research version of this at one time has gathered together the thoughts of some or another. Researchers in of the finest scientific, psychological and Hong Kong learnt that if a ‘keeper stands a good old fashioned footballing brains to small distance closer to one post than the give you the optimum chance to become other it may not be obvious to the kicker this weekend’s penalty hero! but subconsciously the penalty taker knows which side has a larger target area and will Seeing Red tend to shoot that way. Armed with this Since the late 1890’s, when information the ‘keeper is in a stronger 1 keepers first wore a different position to dive to the larger area and can coloured-jersey, green has increase his chance of saving the kick. been the predominant colour Researchers found that by moving just of choice. But latest research from the 10cm towards one side of the goal and University of Chichester confirms green making one side of the goal 3% bigger, is the least successful colour to wear and the goalkeeper can increase his chance of actually red should be the ‘must have’ colour saving the penalty by as much as 15% even in every goalkeepers’ wardrobe this Spring. before the kicker begins his run up. Award-winning psychologist, Dr Iain Greenlees found that ‘keepers in green What to Watch For saved one in four spot kicks compared to Away from Far Eastern the ones in red who saved almost half! 3 philosophies into the football- His studies noted that red is seen as mad city of Liverpool - and no a signal of danger in the natural world surprise their boffins have had and therefore penalty takers notice the little better to do than spend valuable hours goalkeeper more easily. It encourages a researching football! But Mark Williams, from natural fear of failure and makes the ‘keeper the John Moores University, believes he’s look bigger in the goal than he would stumbled upon a treasure trove for keepers in wearing a different colour. need of all the help they can get. He used 40 football players and asked He reckons in the time between them to take 10 penalties against a ‘keeper the award of the penalty to the spot #safehands SPRING 2015 5 COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING CORNER COACHING kick taking place, there’s a gold mine of “We do many things on two levels, such information to be gleaned to help predict as thinking where to put the ball (or where where a penalty taker will shoot. to fake it), but not thinking about what the He saw how more experienced feet, legs and body will do to achieve it.” goalkeepers considered such elements as So, the more the pressure, the more his standing leg, kicking leg and hips for the likely they are to disguise where they’re opponent. planning to aim? He believes by looking at the ‘shape’ a “The more we practise, the more our player adopts before taking the penalty the actions become automatic skills,” explains ‘keeper can stop penalty saving from being Peter. a lottery. “They become unconscious memories “From the point of view of the player of how to react. These memories take over taking the penalty the optimal position for when thinking fails, such as in front of Ashley Barnes - Photo by Paul Hazlewood the standing foot is facing directly down the 80,000 fans.” middle of the goal,” said Professor Williams. “In a penalty kicking competition the “When the goalkeeper saw the penalty Increase their Anxiety only thing that threatens success is the taker’s foot face towards the left or right Levels goalkeeper, so we monitor his movements.” hand side of the goal it allowed the ‘keeper No one’s expecting you to save The research proved that if a kicker’s the necessary information to predict where 4 the penalty, so why worry? The eyes are drawn to the goalkeeper, he tends the penalty would be taken. Standing stress and the strain are all on to shoot in that direction and overcoming foot points left, penalty going to the left; the shoulders of the taker. For this tendency was significantly harder when standing foot points right, penalty goes to decades now, keepers have employed less penalty takers were under pressure, or in a the right hand side of the goal.” than gentlemanly time-wasting techniques. “threat condition”. The research was backed up with the Few have done so more successfully than ol’ And as Grobbelaar appeared to know help of the nation’s most successful penalty spaghetti legs himself, Bruce Grobelaar. instinctively, goalkeepers can make taker, Matt Le Tissier, who converted a Researchers at Exeter University believe themselves more likely to attract the staggering 49 of the 50 penalties he took.

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