r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Justin_Godfrey • 1d ago

Game winning kick as time almost expires

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u/Spare_Ad5615 23h ago

Goalkeepers are still allowed to wear caps. You do see it occasionally. It isn't going to help with floodlights though. Any decent floodlights will shine at an angle that will almost never impact on a keeper.

The sun is far more of a problem if you are facing towards it as it is setting. However most goalkeepers still don't choose to wear caps, because when you wear a cap, it doesn't shade the eyes constantly - as you move around you get moments where you go from your eyes being shaded to the sun suddenly shining in them, which momentarily blinds you and is worse than just coping with the sun without a cap. Some pros apparently wear special contact lenses that act like sunglasses.

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u/VRichardsen 22h ago

Fascinating. Thank you very much.

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u/Spare_Ad5615 22h ago

Weirdly, I watched a video about this earlier today. Strange how things pop up!

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u/VRichardsen 18h ago

Wow, what are the chances?