Okay, you just too OLD to have been a soccer player (unless you are the product of some rich prep-school I've always suspected you of being) so this sounds like ... SOCCER DAD!
How are those terrific daughters?
>>> The formal term is “Goal Keeper”. <<
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>Correct, although it is spelled as a single word: goalkeeper.
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>I don't care how many people call them goalies, it is incorrect. It betrays the typical American ignorance of soccer.
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>While not disputing that you may have heard people from England call them goalies, the dozen or so Brits who are active in our AYSO region without exception call them goalkeepers or keepers.
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>I am not expressing a parochial view. Check the official documents governing soccer at
www.fifa.com and see if you can find the word "goalie" anywhere. You won't.
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>Mike
Charles Hankey
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