Erdinger air holes, low-flying aircraft and an 80-meter goal

Created: 05/28/2022Updated: 05/28/2022 06:25

By: Dieter Priglmeir

Dieter Priglmeir © private

Goalkeeper mistakes and the Champions League final - there was something there, and it could happen again today.

Therefore, a few comforting words from our keeper from the district in advance.

Didn't you know that today is Goalkeeper Mistake Day?

It is always celebrated on the day of the Champions League final.

Probably only from the Real Madrid fans who fondly remember Loris Karius' two knops.

But now Real and Liverpool are meeting again.

That's why we want to tell the keeper and loyal Merkur readers Thibaut Courtois and Alisson Becker: don't be afraid of making mistakes, because they've even happened to our goalkeepers in the district!

Manfred Huber from FC Schwaig, however, rightly pleads for mitigating circumstances, i.e. a great party the day before.

In the game against SV Eichenried he made what he believed to be a powerful sentence.

"In truth, I wasn't a meter off the ground and I dived under the ball.

Must have looked funny.” At least his teammates would have looked a little sparingly – which was probably also due to the fact that they also had the status GG (Goaßmaß-damaged).

How did you change well-being in such a situation in the early 1990s?

Huber: "With a counter measure." And he also had to spend a bit.

His post-post successor took goals conceded to heart a little differently.

At 0:16 he "cried like a hound", admits Franz Hornof.

However, that was still at his goalkeeping debut as a kid at FC Grünbach.

He is now 29 years old and says: "You can learn something from every goal you concede." He had a lot to learn this season in the 3:7 game against Unterföhring in the state league.

"I thought to myself, we're in the wrong film here." Stupid goals conceded?

“Of course, some of them are angry.

You can listen to something there.

But if the striker forgives in front of the empty goal, he will also be teased.”

Lukas Becker also had to listen to a desperate "Luuuuuuuuke" from coach Sebastian Held.

During the game in Eitting, the Wörther keeper slipped the ball under his foot when a defender returned and then spun over the line to make it 0:1.

"We still won 2-1.

But then I had to practice passes for weeks – the suffering of young Wörther.

Chris Brader, goalkeeper at FC Langengeisling, also knows them.

"And that's after I had called out 'Torwaaaart' beforehand," he says.

"Fortunately, it wasn't a game-winning goal." But the important ones, you can't get them out forever, agrees his Geislinger colleague Chris Bernhardt: "The opponent's lucky punch in the last minute is the worst." They are significantly worse than such as the goal we conceded when we were young, “when I ran out completely without a plan.

The striker only had to put the ball across to his team-mate,” Bernhardt recalls of a youth derby with JFG Sempt against Altenerding.

"But it wasn't too bad because Sebastian Schimschal put a free kick into the corner.

“ Lucky punch on the right side.

And anyway: "Checking off mistakes is part of the maturing process."

That's also the case many floors up.

The famous keeper Andreas Rössl, for example, discussed such things with the goalkeeping coach.

The Finsinger was at FC Bayern for years and had to accept bitter defeats in the DM finals in his youth.

With the Bayern amateurs, he even had the dubious honor of being nominated for the "Kacktor des Jahres".

This is a somewhat nasty rubric that Arnd Zeigler introduced for his WDR show "The Wonderful World of Football".

What happened?

In the game against SpVgg Unterhaching, Rössl hit an air hole while attempting to clear and the Hachinger striker pushed in easily.

But that was a used day anyway, because Bayern went down 1:4 at the time.

Andi Vierthaler's most bitter moment was also the greatest for his counterpart.

As a 20-year-old at the time, the Neuching goalkeeper had heeded the tactics of new coach Stefan Bies, acted as a libero behind the back three and stood on the edge of the penalty area, which didn't seem to be a problem when there was a corner kick on the opposite side.

Unfortunately, the Moosen goalkeeper caught it and hit the ball forward, which, driven by the wind, kept flying – straight into the Neuchinger Tor, “I couldn’t look that fast,” says the 31-year-old, who still remembers the story had to listen to for a long time at every party.

So, Monsieur Courtois and Senhor Alisson, these were enough examples to make it clear: mistakes can always happen.

We only have one request: Don't blame the space available.

Because we assume that the grass in Paris is different than on our pitches in the 1970s, where the grass grew sparsely in the penalty area.

Lines were actually not necessary, because the heap of earth limited the five-meter space.

So Sebastian Held Sr., keeper of the Altenerdinger AH, let a back pass pass into goal while standing behind him in the game in Neuching.

However, there was no kick.

The ball had rolled into the goal.

The Neuchinger Platz had been widened.