Nottingham Forest - Aston Villa. Nottingham Forest - Derby County. Preston North End - Nottingham Forest. West Bromwich Albion - Nottingham Forest. Nottingham Forest - Brentford. Birmingham City - Nottingham Forest. Nottingham Forest - Wigan Athletic. Nottingham Forest - Bristol City. Nottingham Forest - Leeds United. Millwall - Nottingham Forest. Norwich City - Nottingham Forest. Nottingham Forest - Queens Park Rangers.
Derby County - Nottingham Forest. Nottingham Forest - Preston North End. Soccer is one of my particular favorites. The importance of height cannot be overlooked in goalkeeping.
It's not a coincidence that the average height of goalkeepers in the biggest football leagues in the world hovers around 6'2". Tall goalies have long reach, allowing them to make very critical saves; these can be the defining moments of a match.
They also possess a sort of presence that can be intimidating to strikers. Very tall individuals can give the illusion of covering the entire goal area when faced with a one-on-one situation. Even though height has its advantages in goalkeeping, it presents its own problems when it gets to the extremities. Extremely tall players are usually less coordinated, weak, and have very poor reflexes.
These are undesirable traits in goalkeeping. This is the reason it's hard to find elite goalies over 6'7" in most of the major football leagues. Therefore, most of the goalkeepers on this list might be unknown even to hardcore football fans. Demba Thiam went through the Italian Primavera league with eight games where he didn't allow any goals. Demba Thiam is a young and relatively unknown goalkeeper who hails from one of the best soccer nations in Africa and one of the few African countries to make it to the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup, Senegal.
He currently plays for S. L in Serie A and is one of the tallest footballers to come out of Senegal. The Serbians are known to produce tall players like Nikola Zigic and so it comes as no surprise that one of the tallest goalkeepers in the world hails from this region. He then made a series of moves and eventually ended up returning to his home country to play for FK Jedinstvo Stara Pazova. Zeljko Kalac goes by the nickname Spider due to his tall, gangly 6'7. He is currently retired and was one of the tallest soccer players of his time.
At Leicester City, he only made three first-team appearances. Paolo Domenico Acerbis was involved in the Italian football scandal for match fixing. He was suspended for two and a half years. Paolo Acerbis is a relatively unknown goalkeeper from Italy despite standing at a commanding height of 6'7. He started his career with AlbinoLeffe and performed well there retaining his position as their first-choice goalkeeper for many years.
He then moved to Triestina but could only make it as their third-choice goalkeeper. From the period to , he played for football clubs like Grosseto, Catania, and Vicenza. He is currently not signed to any club. His younger brother Sergej plays as a midfielder for Lazio in Serie A. L in Serie A. He is on loan from Torino FC. Aaron Chapman has made 53 appearances for Accrington Stanley. Aaron Chapman hails from England and plays as a goalkeeper for Peterborough United.
He signed with Chesterfield in the summer of but spent the second half of the season on loan at Chester. Also ranked in the elit list of famous celebrity born in Romania. Costel Pantilimon celebrates birthday on February 1 of every year. In , he signed for Manchester City, initially on loan, as back-up for Joe Hart. Pantilimon was first choice for City in the —14 League Cup, which they went on to win.
He then remained in the Premier League with Sunderland, spending one-and-a-half seasons there before a transfer to Watford in Pantilimon is a hearing child of two deaf parents. He married Andreea Berbece in Costel Pantilimon Birthday Countdown 0 0 0. He was born to deaf parents in Bacau, Romania. Let's check it out! Please check the article again after few days. He made the English Football League's Team of the Week after producing a clean sheet at Burton Albion when Forest were reduced to ten men for much of the match on 17 February.
Pantilimon made his debut for the Galicians against Real Betis on 16 September. He was contracted to City until During the —13 FA Cup, he kept four clean sheets in a row and managed an outstanding performance against Chelsea in the semi-final, conceding just one goal in five matches.
In response to this performance, then City manager Roberto Mancini immediately promised that the Romanian would keep his place when the team return to Wembley Stadium to face Wigan Athletic on 11 May. However, he was a substitute in the final, with Joe Hart starting; Manchester City lost to Wigan 1—0.
It was later revealed that Mancini had promised on the eve of the FA Cup Final that the Romanian would play, but then deputed the goalkeeping coach on match day morning to say there had been a change of plan.
On 19 January , Pantilimon joined Premier League rivals Watford on a three-and-a-half-year deal, for an undisclosed fee. He also started the game in the Fifth Round against Leeds United. He kept clean sheets in both games. He made his Premier League debut for the Hornets in a forgettable 6—1 defeat at Liverpool on 6 November , after Heurelho Gomes was injured during the first half.
On 27 August, he made his first appearance for the club in the second round of the League Cup second round against Birmingham City, keeping a clean sheet in a 3—0 win at St Andrew's. Pantilimon started the season as back-up for Vito Mannone, but after poor performances in an 8—0 loss to Southampton and a 2—0 loss to Arsenal, the Italian was subsequently dropped and Pantilimon made his Premier League debut for Sunderland in a 3—1 win at Crystal Palace on 3 November , thus becoming the club's first choice keeper for the rest of the season.
He started the next season as first choice before losing his place to Mannone, eventually dropping to third choice behind Jordan Pickford.
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