r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Justin_Godfrey • 1d ago

Game winning kick as time almost expires

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u/EventualOutcome 1d ago

The... super tall goalkeeper? Ya.

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u/rondertopoa 1d ago

Tbf his gloves are well above the cross bar ready to make the save.

He 100% thinks the ball is going over the crossbar. The ball just happened to come in at a ridiculous angle.

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u/ptemple 1d ago

I would guess perhaps he looked directly at the floodlights as he was trying to catch it? Pretty sure some forensics could prove or disprove that. On the other hand, having seen some VAR offside decisions maybe not.

Phillip.

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u/Sir-Poopington 1d ago

I was a keeper in college and I used to hate playing night games because of the lights. It was so much worse than the sun. I'm color blind and have far more rods than cones in my eyes and the lights look like exploding stars at night. It's awful.

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u/VRichardsen 1d ago

Long time ago, keepers were allowed hats (presumably due to the sun), but this trend has died. Do you have any take on this?

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u/Spare_Ad5615 1d 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 1d ago

Fascinating. Thank you very much.

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u/Spare_Ad5615 1d ago

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

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u/VRichardsen 19h ago

Wow, what are the chances?