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This post is going to be about it. About your second home, goalie! Plus it's going to be seriously fun post. One day you will have cute goalie kids, you can tell this to them as bed-time story! They sure will love it!
The net and the small square is your home. You are the only one who have full access to this area. If someone steps into this are- he/she is going to jail (getting 2 minutes penalty), right? You are the only one who owns this area. (Not even referees! Not even coach on practice.. sometimes they do step behind you just to " talk" or "see your movement" in goal or just "see team from different perspective" as they say but it's all about that little square. Everyone knows it's just for goalies, but still everyone secretly want to step into this spot. :))
The bigger square which is surrounding your " home" is your garden. The white stripe is the fence. Quite low one but still it counts. The garden is your territory too. You have 5 dogs(players) totally. Usually 3 of them is running around and having fun in your " evil neighbors" (opponent team) area. When neighbors dogs are mad, they attack and tries to have fun, playing together and " catches the ball" at your area. Than you have to be awake! Than all 5 dogs of yours are home. 2 of your dogs are your very best friends, these two are your guard dogs. You can trust all five of them and they trust you, but as a goalie- never trust them completely. Like a dogs do they are " catching the ball" and sometimes it slips into the house. That's not aloud! Sometimes one of your guard dog runs to play with other ones, but you can always count on one of your five ones than one of them will always stay at home.
As a good owner of your garden you have to be "awake", be aggressive if someone uninvited steps into this area! If post-man (opponent teams player) gives you a newspaper (he is ready for a shoot), you leave your house(shoot out) and grab it(doing the save) and go quickly back into the house. If you leave your doors (the net) open for too long time, the dogs may miss the ball and it gets into the house. And that means game over for dogs and for you too.
The great owner speaks and reacts according to situation, the good owner keeps calm and stay aggressive according to situation. Smart dogs listen and reacts. Make the dogs feel safe, take good care of your house and that's how your dogs will feel the safe with you. The way you react and feel, the way you make feel and react others. Keep communication, be polite and sincere to your "pets" because you have to love them with all your heart to be a good owner.
This is goalie thinking. This probably might be our little revenge to all who have called us as freaks, psychopaths, masochist, retarded and just crazy ones. We know you have been just kidding, so do we too. Dogs are our very best friends in life, that's true! Balance.
I love my players and coaches. They are my heroes. They keep it real for me to do my best. If I see one or many of my player by doing their best and pushing their limits and working their ass out, I instantly become as one of them. If there is a hope in this game, if I see the hope in other eyes, I am ready to fight until bleeding fingers. So much I love my players and their passion. So much I love this game and my passion.
We, goalies, deeply respect our players for courage and spark into their eyes by protecting us by taking the shoot on them instead aimed to goal and fighting in front of us like a soldiers, like a warriors. I like to think than coaches are leaders of the war (game) and kings of the castle(net), players are their army and goalies are the closest one to the king who are the last ones who protect the castle and always takes the last shoot for the king.
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