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 Keep Scoring!

Association Football is over 160 years old. In all that time only one (1) goal keeper has ever been offside! It appears goal keepers are being marginalized. Nope it is because they are consigned to guarding goal. Răducanu Necula the only one who got offside. However he managed to score 7 goals during his career.
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Also, only one goal keeper has won the Golden Ball award at a World Cup. Oliver Khan in 2002. Oliver Kahn also earned himself a red card for scoring with his hand, I don't want to tell you when this happened.

Goalkeepers are so loved by their fathers hence their jersey of "many colours". Actually goal keepers wear a different jersey because they can hold the ball in the goal area.

One goalkeeper has scored more free kicks and penalty goals than all the strikers playing in the Premier League or Serie A today. Rogerio Ceni scored 61 free kicks and 69 penalties (130). That guy is more dangerous than Diego Costa and Ibrahimovic. If that guy had played the 2006 World Cup, Italy may not have won. Make I hear.
In case you have never bothered to check, Nigeria's own Vincent Enyeama also scores penalties. In fact he has scored 20. Excluding penalty shootouts.
Shout out to the men between the sticks. They change the balls every World Cup so that more goals can be scored. Yet you've never backed down though and stopped more goals from getting scored.
Now for the rest of you, get back to work. Some goal keepers are waiting to stop you. Will you let them? This year, you too can score your goals. If goal keepers consigned to safeguarding the posts can score, then you too can. 
 
Happy new year again. Keep scoring.

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