Yours Truly loved and still loves goalkeeper jerseys. When he was young, he would pester his parents into buying him goalkeeper jerseys, shorts and gloves, even though he could not dive or catch a ball properly (and not particularly tall to be of goalkeeper material either). One of his favourite pastimes in those days was to dive left and right, jump up and down in full goalkeeper gear on his parents’ bed while no one else was at home, imagining that he had just made some spectacular saves and was applauded by everyone in the stands.
Back in the 90s, Italian Serie A was the undisputed king and Yours Truly was deeply sucked into it. And he was particularly fond of all those goalkeepers clad in mostly black. Tall, lean and athletic, they were the coolest looking guys on earth for Yours Truly and they just looked amazing in those jerseys. There were many favourites for Yours Truly, not necessarily in terms of their goalkeeping ability, but how they looked in full gear, namely mostly black jerseys, black shorts, black socks and oversized white gloves:
Man, they looked like runway models on soccer pitches and Yours Truly spent many hours daydreaming of growing up to be as tall, lean and athletic as they were.
Sadly, that never materialised.
For goalkeepers clad in all black, Stefano Tacconi of Juventus also came to mind. However, Yours Truly was never a fan of Tacconi in terms of goalkeeping style, as his effective but sometimes awkward technique made it less-than-cool in Yours Truly's eyes.
Speaking of goalkeeper jerseys, Yours Truly always remember seeing a particular one on television once donned by goalkeepers like Giovanni Galli, Luca Marchegiani, Giovanni Cervone and Mario Ielpo in the early 90s’. On TV, it looked like either black or dark brown at the top, and teal/light green at the bottom. Yours Truly spent a long time looking for it online and surprisingly, it proved rather elusive. Then one morning recently, he finally stumbled onto it.
While it probably does not matter to anyone else, it means the world to Yours Truly.
And once again, Yours Truly has to thank the amazing internet for coming to the rescue.
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