A lineage of loco Latin American goalkeepers helped transform the role, straying from their nets.
The goalkeeper is a lonesome creature. Or at least, he used to be. In 1912, the FA limited goalkeepers to using their hands inside their boxes. Then a lineage of loco Latin American goalkeepers helped transform the role, straying far from their nets and scoring a bunch of weird, wild goals. Rene Higuita, Jorge Campos, and Jose Luis Chilavert delighted and terrified their own fans in equal measure. Also they wore retina-searing jerseys.