Random goalkeepers you remember

[Lay]

Ochoa

 

[bp19992]

Tomislav Piplica

 

[A-man]

Dick Last for the iconic player presentation when they, on purpose I assume, presented every player with surname first on the big sceeen.
He played for IFK Göteborg and Örgryte.

 

[sully07]

Pat Jennings. My childhood memory is that he caught every ball, even when diving full length, which he didn’t of course.

 

[JJ12]

Mart Poom
Kevin Pressman

 

[McGrathsipan]

Eric Thorsvedt
Packie Bonner
Shaka Hislop

 

[sully07]

Sepp Maier and his huge gloves

 

[SwedishFish]

Claudio Taffarell
Fabien Barthez
Ali Al-Habsi
Gabor Kiraly
Gianluca Curci
Christian Abbiati
Francesco Toldo
Angelo Peruzzi
Carlos Roa - Nearly signed for us you know but instead went on a hiatus because he thought the world was ending in the year 2000.

And of course the absolute GOAT

Jose Luis Chilavert - The Freekick Master

 

[No Love]

Antti Niemi. Still don’t understand how he couldn’t get a game for Scotland.

 

[Verminator]

Steve Ogrizavic ?
Alex Williams of City, who visit the local schools in Hulme and Moss Side.
Pavel Srnicek

 

[The holy trinity 68]

Brad Friedel, he used to turn into the best GK in the world whenever he faced United.

 

[SoCross]

Maarten Stekelenburg.

I was desperate for us to sign him at one point. Also was fun chanting his name.

 

[Red Devil 26]

Gianluca Pagliuca - used to watch Inter games as a kid, to watch R9 play.

 

[Jeppers7]

Antti Niemi. Still don’t understand how he couldn’t get a game for Scotland.

He’s finished

 

[Jeppers7]

Gary Walsh, Chris Turner, Chris woods, Tony Cotton, Hans Seagers, Les Sealey, Steve Ogrosivic

 

[Hernandez - BFA]

Shaka Hislop

 

[Lelouch geass]

Roa for his penalty save. As a kid used to love him.

 

[altodevil]

 

[peacefulwarlord]

Mondragon
Lobont/Stelea
Illgner/Kopke
Paul Robinson
Songo'o/Kameni
Nikopolidis
Pletikosa
Shovkovskyi

 

[Chipper]

Mark Crossley
Tony Coton
Mike Hooper
John Filan
Jonathon Gould

 

[Oranges038]

Kevin Poole, think he played until he was 50.

 

[padzilla]

Changing the topic slightly but was there ever a goalkeeper who wore tracksuit bottoms that wasn't rubbish?

 

[Floyd]

Rudolfus Hubertus "Ruud" Hesp.

What a name.

What a name indeed. Do you know who Rutgerus Johannes Martinus is?

 

[Pughnichi]

Steve Ogrizovic

 

[Sunny Jim]

Jorge Campos - Mexican goalkeeper who always seemed to be wearing really colorful jerseys. I liked that as a kid.

He also played as a striker at club level. I share your sentiment. i loved him as a kid.

 

[Sunny Jim]

Joël Bats.
Andy Goram.
Dino Zoff.
Tony Meola.
Andy Goram.

Two Andy Gorams ther's only two Andy Gorams

 

[Sunny Jim]

De Goey. Mostly because its Dutch pronounciation sounds in Polish as "dick" but more vulgar. And it was funny to see how Polish commentators tried not to pronounce it correctly

Confirmed. Szpakowski was briltiat with his attmept "Ed de Hey" Are you Polish?

 

[TwoSheds]

Changing the topic slightly but was there ever a goalkeeper who wore tracksuit bottoms that wasn't rubbish?

Kiraly had one good year for Palace I seem to remember. Bernard Lama was a dude. But most importantly, this guy:

All goalkeepers who wear trackies are mental though, that's definitely true. To the point where in my head Narthex never wore shorts just because he was mental.

 

[Vidyoyo]

It always felt like France produced tons of good keepers, who were probably in retrospect a bit average.

Sebastien Frey
Gregory Coupet
Mickael Landreau
Steve Mandanda
Yohann Pele (was a wonderkid on old football games).

Goalkeeper is an interesting position though as until recently you could get by with a decent-but-not-great one. There's definitely been an evolution in terms of expectations - moving from just being a good commander/shot stopper to being a better all around player.

 

[1950]

Leo Franco (Atlético)
Philipp Laux (Ulm/Dortmund)
Carlos Kameni (Espanyol/Málaga)
Tim Wiese (Werder/WWE)

 

[Dembeza]

Itumeleng Khune - The best ball distributor I know.

 

[Bole Top]

Landreau from Nantes and later PSG. excellent at stopping penalties if my memory serves me well.
Cesar Sanchez from Madrid. not sure what was happening to Casillas in those days, but I remember seeing Cesar a lot in CL.
Molina from Deportivo and their glory days.
Hahnemann, former Reading goalkeeper. also rather unlucky as the competiton for NT was brutal. USA had Keller, Friedel and Howard, so he rarely got to play.
Pelizzoli from Roma, actually rather expensive but was flop long term.

Doni
Armani
German Lux
S. Saja
Westerveld
Oscar Cordoba
Dutruel
Helton
Muslera
Turnbull

 

[JarkiJarko]

Surprised that nobody mentioned Zdravko Zdravkov yet

 

[samolocix]

John O´Shea

 

[Neil_Buchanan]

For years I thought that Taffarel was the best GK in the world because he was Brazilian and they were the best team on fifa.

 

[Irrational.]

Adam Federici. I remember him having an absolute stormer against us for Reading.

 

[duffer]

This stylish fellow who played for Chelsea in the mid-90s:

I thought he was one of the better keepers in the league for a time but I have no idea if that was accurate. Perhaps @duffer can set me right.

I have generally only good memories of Kharine. I was in my mid-teens at the time he was a regular and had a season ticket back then.

Almost all the goalies we have had after him were better (De Goey, Cudicini, Cech, Courtois) and also the only clips that ever get shown of Kharine are the 4-0 FA Cup final or Cantona's lob that hit the bar at Stamford Bridge (I was at that game and was one of the fans applauding the effort!). I think that kinda influences how people see him but I don't remember ever thinking he was bad.

 

[bsCallout]

Ron-Robert Zieler. FM.

 

[Giggs' right foot]

Kasey Keller. Had like 32 football cards of him. He was just always there in any pack I opened.

 

[Ibi Dreams]

Igor Akinfeev