Goal keeper....life saver

Goalkeeper Imran was walking along the street one day when he heard screams from a nearby building. He looked up to see smoke billowing from a fourth-floor window and a woman leaning out holding a baby.

"Help ! Help!" screamed the woman, "I need someone to catch my baby!"

A crowd of onlookers had gathered, but none was confident about catching a baby dropped from such a great height. then the Imran, stepped forward. "I'm the goalkeeper of Maldives National team," he called to the woman. "I'm renonwned for my safe hands. Drop the baby and I will catch it. For me, it will be just like catching a ball."

The woman agreed:"Ok, then. When I drop my baby, treat it as if you were catching a ball."

On a count of three, the woman dropped the baby. Everyone held their breath as the Imran lined himself up to catch it. There was a huge sigh of relief, followed by wild cheering as Imran caught the baby safely in his arms. Then he bounced it twice on the ground and kicked it 50 yards down the street.

Soccer Mania

Congratulations to our Gaumee Team!

Indeed last night's was an extraordinary match, our National Team got their hands on the SAFF championship trophy ... for the first time!!. They beat previous champions and tournament favourite India one goal to nil. I never thought that Muhkthar would be the one to provide the deciding goal. Fantastic!

So to celebrate our win and to celebrate the wonderful game of soccer, I present to you some favourite soccer memoirs.

First up let me share with you the world's best 5 goals. For lack of a better name lets call it the ping pong goals.

Fantastic goals for coaches and students of soccer to watch again and again

We are fortunate that last night's match didn't have to go into extra time or worse yet, penalties. Our team has a terrible record in penalty taking. However, if we do stumble upon it, it would be sensible to be prepared for it. The following videos would provide us with some valuable insight into the secret world of penalty taking

Let us first take a look at how to take the perfect penalty

Legal move?

And that's how you do it. Then again, its nothing compared to the world's best penalty. Unfortunately, the following is not on a regular match, perhaps due to its requirement for perfect delivery. This is a must see, guaranteed to send heads spinning.

Best penalty ever

And finally lets check out on goal keeping. Its the toughest job on the pitch and rarely receives any recognition, let us hope that Subrata Pal and Imran can learn some lessons from this.

Magic Gloves