Quotes about goalkeeping (13 Quotes)



    Clark credited the goalkeeping efforts of Chris Cahill, who had his second shutout of the weekend and was named to his second straight all-tournament team. You really can't start off much better that that, ... We were playing without starting defender Dale Relias who was out with an injury so our defenders played very well.


    Colin comes in to solve a goalkeeping problem as Neil Bennett has decided to go back south. My assistant, Jimmy Bone, knows Colin well from his time working with him at County last season. I have admired Mark for some time. He is a good player and has pace.

    But in a way, it's kind of disappointing, too, now that we've played, because we defended well and got good goalkeeping (11 saves from Micah Lamb) and knocked the ball around pretty well at times. We just have to find a way to be more creative. We can't rely on set pieces all of the time to score goals.


    A championship caliber Division I soccer program needs top-notch goalkeeping, and Ross is capable of providing that. He will provide great competition for the goalkeeping position. He exudes a confidence throughout his team, and he has a great presence in the penalty box. Ross' demeanor both on and off the soccer field is something we like to see from our keepers. Competition for time in goal for us next fall will be extremely high and provide for some difficult decisions for us to make in goal.

    That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.


    I'm pretty much settled at this point. The way it works out, with the guys training in the morning, I can foresee being the goalkeeping coach at Penn for the next 10 or 20 years, or at least the foreseeable future.

    We have to sure up our goalkeeping, but we also have to take advantage of our goal scoring opportunities. We had quite a number of goal scoring opportunities in the Northeastern game and the BC game that we did not take advantage of.


    If you look historically at our program, we've always had outstanding goalies. That's definitely been a BU tradition for field hockey, and outstanding goalkeeping has always been a strength of our program.

    Our strength is that we return depth at every position and the only exception is goalkeeper. S.A. graduated last season after a great career and we don't return anyone with college experience. We do like the talent we've added, and feel very comfortable with our goalkeeping situation.



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