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Issue 3 of the fantastic Goalkeeper Magazine is out now for September/October 2011. It is published in the UK but has subscribers all over the planet. The magazine comes out every two months and they have an online Members Area where exclusive videos are accessible to subscribers only. At the moment they are running a [...]

Name: Bernhard “Bert” Carl Trautmann Club Appearances: 590 (545 Manchester City, 43 St Helens town, 2 Wellington town) Height: 6ft 2in – 189.5cm Date of Birth: 22/10/1922 Bremen, Germany Biography Bert Trautmann had a quite remarkable goalkeeping career which began in a prisoner of war camp in Ashton-in-Makerfield and ended, long after, having lifted the [...]

For many years, goalkeepers had to content themselves with either a lonesome solitary (or small group) training session on their own, or with the outfield players, followed by some shooting practice or a small match. These days, goalkeepers have their own coaches – usually ex-keepers themselves – who provide specific drills aimed solely at perfecting [...]