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The wall is the one piece of a goalie's equipment he helps make, paints himself, and grows up against. Here's why it sits at the center of the training — and what happened when my son and I built o...
A Good Game and a Good Score Aren't the Same Thing
Five things worth watching that never appear in the stat line — and how to tell, from a sideline, whether your goalie actually played well.
You're comparing him to the best kid on the field, who is probably eleven months older and four inches taller. Here's a better measuring stick.
One day there's a last game, and nobody tells you which one it is. What actually remains from a decade of this, and how to spend the years so the right things do.
What a Goalie Learns About Failure That Most Adults Never Do
Public, numbered, unavoidable failure, forty times a season, with three seconds to recover. It's the most unusual thing this sport offers a child — and the most useful.
What If He Doesn't Play in College?
It's the most likely outcome for most families reading this, and almost nobody writes about it honestly. What the ten years were actually for, and how the ending gets handled well.