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The one teammate whose entire job is being blamed for everyone else's mistakes.
means The player who guards the goal and whose main job is to stop the other team's shots from going in.
from A plain compound of 'goal' (the scoring target, from Middle English 'gol,' meaning boundary or limit) and 'keeper' (one who guards or watches over something, from Old English 'cepan,' to seize or hold). The word simply names the job: the one who keeps the goal.
- only position
- allowed to use hands, legally, sometimes
- psychology
- must forget disasters in under three seconds
- stat quirk
- a perfect game means doing visibly nothing
- loneliest job
- stands alone while ten teammates attack