Guards in boxing gloves knocked out the attackers
Everyone remembers when Argentine Emiliano Martinez, Aston Villa goalkeeper, caused a serious injury to the Norwegian, Erling Haaland, Manchester City striker, during the confrontation that brought together the two teams in the English Premier League in the round before last, during the goalkeeper’s attempt to deal with one of the balls that rushed Her Norwegian striker.
Goalkeepers have laws that protect them. On the other hand, some of them do not hesitate to use these laws to protect their den, and the outcome is usually serious injuries to players, although in some periods the guards are also exposed to serious injuries.
The Portuguese, Anthony Lopez, the goalkeeper of the French Lyon team, is considered one of the most dangerous guards and was expelled on many occasions in the French League due to his recklessness and in some cases deliberately injuring his rivals, and he missed many matches due to his expulsion in more than one meeting in the French League.
The former Chelsea star, Didier Drogba, was seriously injured and concussed during one of the matches in the English Premier League that brought his team together in Sheffield, where the goalkeeper hit him with a direct punch during the competition for a ball, to be replaced quickly for fear of his safety.
And goalkeeper Alexander Noble, when he was playing for Schalke 04, made a strong intervention on a Frankfurt player in the German league competitions for the 2018-2019 season, which cost him a direct expulsion following he seriously injured his opponent when trying to prevent him from scoring in his own goal.
The famous German goalkeeper, Olivier Kahn, was known for his extreme violence in the face of his competitors and was a nightmare that threatened the safety of the players, and even sometimes he injured his comrades in German Bayern Munich, in addition to the severity of his dealings with them and his continuous screaming.
Some matches between Arab clubs also recorded violent interventions, the last of which was the reckless exit of the Libyan goalkeeper Moaz Al-Lafi, during a confrontation that brought together his team, Al-Ittihad, with the Tunisian Esperance, to hit his compatriot Hamdo Al-Huni, the Esperance player, in a violent way that cost him expulsion.
During the last World Cup, we recorded many cases in which the goalkeepers were reckless and tried to hit their opponents, starting with the Welsh goalkeeper who hit Iran striker Mehdi Tarimi and was sent off following returning to video technology, which proved the seriousness of the intervention.
The Saudi player, Yasser Al-Shahrani, was also seriously injured following a strong intervention by his colleague, goalkeeper Al-Owais, in the first match in the World Cup Qatar once morest the Argentine national team, which cost him to return to his country without finishing the World Cup, as the scene was shocking following he lost consciousness for some periods as a result of the force of the intervention that was vulnerable to it.
History preserves a dangerous intervention, championed by German goalkeeper Harold Schumacher, on French player Patrick Batston in the 1982 World Cup finals held in Spain, an incident considered historic for the controversy that accompanied it since the German goalkeeper was not punished by the referee.
