While attention at the WorldCup has mostly been on stars like Argentina's Messi, Brazil's Neymar, and Portugal's Ronaldo, goalkeepers have also shined — especially for the final four teams.
, but beating, Harry Kane and England, this Fab Four of keepers has generated as much buzz in their little confined spaces, as all those other guys running around the pitch.Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livaković snuffs out Brazil forward Neymar during the World Cup quarterfinal match on Dec.
9, 2022. Scurry is loving the attention paid to her fellow goalkeepers, whose importance has grown, she says, since the quarterfinals. "I've always said this, from quarterfinal to final, at some point in time," Scurry said,"that goalkeeper of a team that wins, or gets to the final, has to come up huge. And the truth is, all four of them have already done it." Scurry says by the quarters in a World Cup, everybody's tired. Some teams have injured players or other reasons why they're not at full strength."At some point, a team might come out flat and the goalkeeper is going to have to stand up and do their job," she said,"this happens all the time. I mean, it happened to me in 1999, in the [Women's World Cup]. Like I had six or seven great saves I had to make, and I had more saves in that one game than the entire tournament." "And it's because we came out flat against Brazil. In the [preceding] game against Germany, we had to come from behind twice and you exhaust your emotions. And there's always that [let down] unfortunately, it's almost like anti-climactic after you win a big game, then a lot of times a team is flat in the next game." And that's why Scurry's thinking everyone's favorite Rocky Balboa, Morocco, may be in for trouble against seasoned and confident France. "[Morocco] had such an amazing game in the quarterfinals to get this far," she said,"and now I feel if there's a letdown [by] them, I wouldn't be surprised. Because it's hard to amp it up consecutively like that. So the goalkeeper's going to be really vital and called upon for this.""I almost don't want to make a prediction," she said."I just want to watch and see how things unfold."Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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