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The role of a goalkeeper is difficult to judge, above all if you haven't been a goalkeeper. It's like me giving an opinion on someone's job without having had any experience in their sector. You start to realise how many stupid things are said and written about goalkeepers.

As a goalkeeper you need to be good at organising the people in front of you and motivating them. You need to see what's going on and react to the threats. Just like a good manager in business.

In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so much more compared with in the past.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

In the end, you need to be a little masochistic to be a goalkeeper. A masochist and egocentric as well.

There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.

OK, the wonderful thing about soccer is, a football is a perfectly round object, and it doesn't make mistakes. The player using it makes mistakes. And the more you use it, the less mistakes you make.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

You learn in the pros that errors can be costly.

If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with - if you keep it out, it's not a goal.