67. Tour de Pologne starts tomorrow

Tour de Pologne was held first time in 1928. Since 1952 is organised annualy. Until the early 1993 was open for amateur cyclists only. Since 2005 the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) made TdP part of the UCI ProTour. Since 2009 it become the part of the UCI World Ranking calendar. It's one of the best sport events in Poland.

For 7 days the page about goalkeepers is going to change into a page about cyclist.

Happy because my favorite cyclist, Marek Rutkiewicz, is going to be the leader of the Polish national team. A year ago he was 6th in General classification and won Mountains classification.

The route consists of 7 stages and the main part of the race is going to take place on Silesia.

1. 1st August - Sochaczew to Warsaw, 175.1 km (108.8 mi)
2. 2nd August - Rawa Mazowiecka to Dąbrowa Górnicza, 240.0 km (149.1 mi)
3. 3th August - Sosnowiec to Katowice, 122.1 km (75.9 mi)
4. 4th August - Tychy to Cieszyn,, 177.9 km (110.5 mi)
5. 5th August - Jastrzębie-Zdrój to Ustroń 149.0 km (92.6 mi)
6. 6th August - Oświęcim to Bukowina Tatrzańska, 228.5 km (142.0 mi)
7. 7th August - Nowy Targ to Kraków, 163.9 km (101.8 mi)



Visit the offical page for more info: http://tourdepologne.pl/index.php.

Best saves of South Africa 2010 video

Best saves of South Africa 2010.

Link to video send by Monica08 : here.

Goalkeepers appearing in the video: Richard Kingson, Justo Villar, Eduardo, Iker Casillas, Maarten Stekelenburg, Vincent Enyeama, Noel Valladares, Oscar Perez, Diego Benaglio, Vladimir Stojković, Samir handanović.

I would like to see there also Manuel Neuer's and Tim Howard's saves.

Would you add someone else?

'It was 1800 days of cold, wind and rain", says Artur Boruc

"It was 1800 days of cold, wind and rain", said Artur Boruc, when asked about his time at Celtic Glasgow by Scottish media. "But seriously, it was a great time".

"Celtic and its fan will always stay close to my heart. This club is a part of me now, just like my family and my fiancée. It was a great honor to play for Celtic."

"I think that playing for Fiorentina is a chance for me, to develop my skills. I came here to be the goalkeeper, I have no indention of declaring I will do this or that, blah, blah, blah. It's easy to give promises. Instead of talking, I prefer playing. The quality of my performance should speak for itself.

World Cup 2010, full stats of goalkeepers' performance

The table presents full stats of goalkeeper's performance at World Cup 2010. Games started, saves made, allowed goals, clean sheets and penalty saves made. All data according to ESPN stats. May differ sligthly from data of other pages.

Country	Goalkeeper	Games	Saves	Goals allowed	Clean sheets	Penalties saved
Algeria	Rais M'Bohli	2	12	1	1	0
Algeria	Faouzi Chaouchi	1	2	1	0	0
Argentina	Sergio Romero	5	10	6	2	0
Australia	Mark Schwarzer	3	13	6	0	0
Brazil	Julio Cesar	5	11	4	2	0
Cameroon	Souleymanou Hamidou	3	10	4	0	0
Chile	Claudio Bravo	4	5	5	2	0
Denmark	Thomas Sorensen	3	16	6	0	0
England	Robert Green	1	3	1	0	0
England	David James	3	6	4	2	0
France	Hugo Lloris	3	12	4	1	0
Germany	Manuel Neuer	6	20	3	3	0
Germany	Hans-Joerg Butt	1	4	2	0	0
Ghana	Richard Kingson	5	23	4	1	0
Greece	Alexandros Tzorvas	3	13	5	0	0
Honduras	Noel Valladares	3	12	3	0	0
Italy	Gianluigi Buffon	1	0	1	0	0
Italy	Frederico Marchetti	3	1	4	1	0
Ivory Coast	Boubacar Barry	3	8	3	2	0
Japan	Elji Kawashima	4	11	2	1	1*
Mexico	Óscar Pérez	4	13	5	1	0
Netherlands	Maarten Stekelenburg	7	21	6	2	0
New Zealand	Mark Paston	3	9	2	1	0
Nigeria	Vincent Enyeama	3	21	5	0	0
North Korea	Ri Myong-Guk	3	21	12	0	0
Paraguay	Justo Villar	5	11	2	3	1
Portugal	Eduardo	4	19	1	3	0
Serbia	Vladimir Stojković	3	7	3	1	1
Slovakia	Jan Mucha	4	14	7	0	0
Slovenia	Samir Handanovic	3	13	3	1	0
South Africa	Itumeleng Khune	2	4	2	0	0
South Africa	Moeneeb Josephs	2	3	3	0	0
South Korea	Jung Sung-Ryong	4	15	8	1	0
Spain	Iker Casillas	7	16	2	5	1
Switzerland	Diego Benaglio	3	13	2	1	0
United States	Tim Howard	4	14	5	1	0
Uruguay	Fernando Muslera	7	22	8	3	2

* the goal was scored after retake

Saves total: 428 (6,7 per game)
Allowed goals total: 145 (2,7 per game)
Clean sheets total: 41
Penalty saves total: 6

"Whoever comes, he better know that he'll be my second goalkeeper", says Frey

Monica08 found an interesting article at http://www.tuttosport.com/ page about Sebastian Frey and his attitude to his club plans to sign a new goalkeeper. He is seems to be almost offended by the fact the Fiorentina hired Boruc. Below is her translation of this news.

According to Tuttosport.it July 21 2010.

Frey has been the indisputable #1 goalkeeper at Fiorentina since 2005. So why in the world did Fiorentina on June 12 2010 bother to go look for other top goalkeepers abroad??

In short, once Frey knew that Fiorentina was looking for another top goalkeeper he "complained" to the media. Fiorentina didn't like it and fined him! Fiorentina did it to provide Frey with more challenges and motivation (stimuli in Italian) but apparently Frey took Boruc' signing personally.

Frey's quote:
12 June - "My future, I still see it at Firenze. I am doing very well here. I have 3 more years left in my contract. Even if my [Fiorentina] sporting director is looking for other goalkeepers, I will stay here. I think I showed what I'm worth all these years and my love for the shirt. I don't understand how can one search for another goalkeeper when one has Frey as the #1goalkeeper [titolare]. The money will have to be spent in another manner. All these rumors have surprised me. In any case, whoever [new goalkeeper signing] comes, he better know that he'll be my second [goalkeeper] because I still have lots of willingness to play. I am convinced that I'm still important for my club [Fiorentina].

Meanwhile today the new Fiorentina manager was presented and he said "There is still time to decide. They are two great goalkeepers, it will be up to them.". Source: http://www.tuttosport.com.



Boruc of Frey? Who is going to win this competition?

Daniel Fernandes signed a contract with Panathinaikos

Daniel Fernandes went on a one-year loan to Greek League Champion Panathinaikos F.C.

His impressive performance in the second half of the previous season in Iraklis brought the attenction of several clubs, including Olympiacos and Braga.

It is reported that Portuguese club was interested in bringing the Portuguese goalkeeper as a replacement for Eduardo, who signed the contract with Genoa. However, Fernandes was already in advanced negotations with Panathinaikos.

Playing in Greek league is nothing new for Daniel. Save for a half of season spent in Iraklis, he played for six years for PAOK.

Candian-born Portuguese goalkeeper will have to compete for the place in the goal with Alexandros Tzorvas, no. 1 of the Greek team at the World Cup.

Ricardo in Deportivo La Coruna vs Betis match 1:1 22 Mar 2009, photos

Some photos of Ricardo from Betis Sevilla away match agains Deportivo La Coruna. It's been a long time since Ricardo was playing... It doesn't seem anything is going to change in upcoming season :(

Rui Patricio video

Found this video when I was looking for a highlights with Rui Patricio's goal. It's nice to watch.

Sporting Lisbon - FC Twente 1-1 29 July 2009 Rui Patricio's goal video

Monica 08 told me about Rui Patricio scoring a goal in the last minutes of the game. Found the video of this situation.

In the second leg match Twente scored the opening goal at the very beginning of the match. Sporting was not able to score the equalizer until the goalkeeper Rui Patricio headed on goal from a corner in the added time. The ball bounced from defender Peter Wisgerhof and fell into the net past goalkeeper Mihaylov.

Back then that goal guaranted Portuguese team advance to fourth preliminary round of the Champions League.

World Cup 2010: Netherlands vs Spain 0-1 11 July, Maarten Stekelenburg photos of the game

Stekelburg did fine in the final. I think he was the best player of the Netherlands team. He made 5 saves in the game.

Lech Poznań - Inter Baku (9) 0-1 (8) Kotorowski photos of the match

Kotorowski scored the final penalty himself...



...and saved Giorgi Lomaia's shots. In the penalty shoot-out Lomaia saved 2 penalties, Kotorowski 3.

Lech Poznań - Inter Baku 0 (9) - 1 (8), Krzysztof Kotorowski saved 3 penalties in penalty shoot-out

Polish Champion Lech Poznań made through into the third qualifing round to Champions League after 22-penalty shoot-out.

Lech Poznań win the first leg 1-0 but after the poor performance on home soil lost 0-1. It came to a tie and in the result the penalty shoot-out.

Goalkeeper Krzysztof Kotorowski saved Lech Poznań from an ashaming defeat with Inter Baku. He saved three penalties in total, and scored the final one himself.

It's nice that he had his moment of glory. He plays for the club since 2004 and has his ups and downs including being reduced to a second choice goalkeeper.

Lech Poznań is going to play with Sparta Praha in the next round.

Watch the video of the penalty shoot-out.