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Top 10 Goalscoring Goalkeepers
Goal.com runs through a list of shot-stoppers who fancied their chances at the other end too,

By Peter Staunton
Aug 19, 2010 9:30:00 AM
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Bayern
Bursaspor
Hapoel Tel Aviv
Sao Paulo
Players
José René Higuita
Rogério Ceni
Dimitar Ivankov
Hans-Jörg Butt
Vincent Enyeama



The Nigeria international added his name to the list of Champions League goalscoring goalkeepers with his penalty against Red Bull Salzburg in the play-off first leg on Wednesday. Enyeama, who impressed for the Super Eagles during the 2010 World Cup, is no stranger to the scoresheet. Last January he scored the winning goal in the penalty shoot-out to eliminate Zambia from the Africa Cup of Nations having already saved an effort himself. It was a stark contrast to his Enyimba days, when he was substituted before the spot-kicks. In 2004 he scored from the spot in the CAF Champions League final second leg against Etoile Sahel to restore parity for the People's Elephant but was jettisoned before the shoot-out. Nonetheless he has now proven himself to be an established shot-stopper and one of Israel's best players.

Frank Moss

Frank Moss was signed by Herbert Chapman for Arsenal in November 1931 and made his debut at Chelsea the following day. He went on to win three consecutive League Championship titles. At Everton in March 1935 Frank dislocated his shoulder in a heavy fall. Trainer Tom Whittaker re-set it on the spot, and, this being 30 years before substitutes were allowed, Moss insisted on playing the remainder of the game on the left wing, having always thought he was good enough to be an outfield player. In an Arsenal counter-attack, he scored a glorious goal to put his team ahead. Shortly afterwards the shoulder slipped out again and he went off to hospital. The Gunners won 2-0 on their way to a hat-trick of titles. Moss, who also scored two goals in friendlies for Arsenal, and won four caps for England, only played five more League matches as a result of recurrent complications from the shoulder injury. He was advised to retire from the game in March 1937, aged just 27.

Dimitar Ivankov



The Bulgarian has recently been crowned a Turkish League champion for Bursaspor, who claimed their first-ever triumph by one point from Fenerbahce last term. The year before the stopper had helped curtail Fener's league ambitions by netting a winning penalty at the Bursa Ataturk in March 2009. Ivankov has the golden touch when it comes to scoring, with 41 over the course of his career, as well as in winning trophies. In a decade at Levski Sofia he won eight major honours. Since arriving in Turkey he has won a Turkish Cup for Keyserispor in 2008, scoring two penalties in the deciding shoot-out, as well as the Super Lig. He ranks behind only Rogerio Ceni and Jose Luis Chilavert in the all-time goalscoring goalkeeper's list.

Peter Schmeichel



The goalkeeper who surely must rank as one of Sir Alex Ferguson's greatest ever signings for Manchester United scored six times for Hvidovre in the Danish first division in 1985, almost 20 per cent of the team's goals, but still ended up relegated. He scored twice more for Brondby before departing for England. Schmeichel was a pioneer of the last-minute dash to the opposition penalty box when behind and was rewarded with an unlikely goal against Rotor Volgograd in a 1995 UEFA Cup match. He repeated the trick for Aston Villa in October 2001 in a 3-2 defeat at Everton. Schmeichel claimed the 1992 European Championship with the Denmark national team and accrued a glut of honours, both team and individual at Old Trafford, culminating in the 1999 Treble triumph.

Jorge Campos



It has become trite to claim that goalkeepers are really just frustrated outfield players but no player fulfilled that stereotype better than Jorge Campos, the Mexico legend. He began his career in 1988 at Pumas and could not dislodge their number one netminder so he played the season as a forward, scoring 14 times. Throughout his time in the game he often grew bored in goal and was placed in a striking berth by his coaches, to good effect, scoring 38 times in his playing days. Despite being only 1.68m, he won 130 caps for el Tri as a goalkeeper and played at both 1994 and 1998 World Cup tournaments. He is fondly remembered by international audiences for his bizarre, self-designed range of kit. Campos has also been immortalised in a range of Japanese Manga comics.


Hans Joerg Butt



The Germany international holds the distinction of having scored against Juventus for three different clubs in the Champions League, the most recent goal against the Bianconeri coming in the vital win for Bayern Munich last winter. Butt has been made infamous in video thanks to the predicament in which he found himself after scoring for Bayer Leverkusen in April 2004. He scored a penalty but could only watch on as Mike Hanke, of Schalke, scored straight from the kick-off as the Werkself failed to complete their celebrations in time. In all, Butt has scored 29 times for Hamburg, Bayer and Bayern and remains first choice at the Allianz Arena.

Rene Higuita



Jailed for his part in a kidnapping involving two of Colombia's most notorious drug lords, Rene Higuita is one of the most 'colourful' characters ever to have played the game. He won 68 caps for Colombia, scoring eight times in the process. That return gives him a better international strike rate than Emile Heskey. He played at the World Cup in 1990 and gained infamy for his outfield dawdling prior to Roger Milla's goal for Cameroon which knocked the South Americans out of the tournament. At club level he played most consistently for Atletico Nacional, winning a Copa Libertadores in 1989. Throughout his career, which ended in January at the age of 43, he netted 38 strikes across 13 clubs. 'El Loco' also invented the Scorpion Kick at Wembley in 1995 from a misplaced Jamie Redknapp cross and served a ban for testing positive for cocaine. Surely a candidate for a film biopic.

Jimmy Glass

Not the most prolific of candidates on the list but his goal certainly had the most profound effect on the club for which he scored his solitary professional strike. Carlisle United were heading out of league football towards the end of the 1998-99 season. They signed Glass on loan from Swindon Town as emergency cover following the departure of two other shot-stoppers on their books. In their final match of the term, against Plymouth Argyle, Carlisle needed a win to avoid the drop out of the Football League. Deep into injury time, they got a corner, for which Glass went forward. Following a scramble he volleyed home, saving his club from the doom of relegation with the last kick of the season, sparking euphoric scenes at Brunton Park. He only played three matches for Carlisle but established himself as a hero in that space of time thanks to his unforgettable contribution. Truly, the stuff of fantasy.

Jose Luis Chilavert



The first goalkeeper ever to score a hat-trick was hugely successful throughout his long and often controversial career, earning respect as a renowned free-kick specialist. For the Paraguay national team he racked up an impressive eight goals, including four in the qualification campaign for the 2002 World Cup, and enjoyed nine fruitful seasons in Argentina with Velez Sarsfield, for whom he scored close to 50 goals. He won four league titles, a Copa Libertadores as well as an Intercontinental Cup against Milan in 1994. He created history alongside River Plate's Roberto Bonano in 2000 when both 'keepers scored in the same Libertadores game. The former Strasbourg custodian was never far from the eye of a storm, refusing to play for Paraguay at the 1999 Copa America as he believed his country's government was not spending enough money on education. He also spat on Roberto Carlos and demanded Brazil give back land claimed after the War of the Triple Alliance in the 19th century after accusing the diminutive full-back of racism in a 2002 qualifier. A character, to be sure.

Rogerio Ceni



The undisputed king of the goalscoring goalkeepers. No other netminder has registered more at the other end than Ceni. The Brazil international has played over 900 times for Sao Paulo and holds the record for goals scored in the Copa Libertadores for his club. Ceni is close to racking up a century of strikes for the Tricolor with 89 scored. And with him on free-kick and penalty duty, there is a fair chance yet of him making that milestone. In 2006 in a league game against Cruzeiro he saved a penalty while 2-0 down. Minutes later he scored through a free-kick and later levelled the match with a penalty. In a long, illustrious career, Ceni has claimed two Copa Libertadores titles, three Brazilian leagues and a World Club Championship against Liverpool in 2005.

Good one for him there, i wish he could move to the spanish la liga, i need to see more of him joor and i hope they make the ECL group stages

MR Money £:

There are still some few valuable players in the SE, like uche kalu and osaze odemwingie,

[b]Gbam[/b]

What a retarded thread title?

What Guinness Book Record was broken?

People need to be well educated to try and only spew facts, not any thrash that comes to their mind.

^^My point exactly,is not like he scored a hatrick on the open play,I don't think there is anything special about a goalkeepers kicking penalties,it happens all the times all over the world.

Or maybe we want to go so cheap by saying he is the first African/Black goalkeeper to score in the whitemans land? as if it is some sort of the biggest achivement for all black race.

I hate this first black man to do this first black woman to do that.Because it means whiteman did it before.Why do we celebrate our failure? I would have celebrated if Enyeama was the first goalkeeper to ever score a hatrick.That would have been a record,not this.

RSA:

^^My point exactly,is not like he scored a hatrick on the open play,I don't think there is anything special about a goalkeepers kicking penalties,it happens all the times all over the world.

Or maybe we want to go so cheap by saying he is the first African/Black goalkeeper to score in the whitemans land? as if it is some sort of the biggest achivement for all black race.

I hate this first black man to do this first black woman to do that.Because it means whiteman did it before.Why do we celebrate our failure? I would have celebrated if Enyeama was the first goalkeeper to ever score a hatrick.That would have been a record,not this.

Morons just brandish words they have encountered before at will, without any engagement of their mental faculty.

Any remarkable feat needs to be branded as "breaking Guinness Book Of Records". The guy would definitely do well as a Nigerian journalist. That industry is full of retards.

Sagamite:

Morons just brandish words they have encountered before at will, without any engagement of their mental faculty.

Any remarkable feat needs to be branded as "breaking Guinness Book Of Records". The guy would definitely do well as a Nigerian journalist. That industry is full of retards.

Every feat is 'Guinness world records', according to some people.

@Topic,
Kalu Uche was equally outstanding in SA.

Jarus:

Every feat is 'Guinness world records', according to some people.

@Topic,
Kalu Uche was equally outstanding in SA.

Abi o.

People just annoy me.

I don't understand how people can not engage their brain especially when making public statements. Do they have no pride in their intellect? Or is it just that they have any intellect?

And when I say 90% of people, in my opinion, are morons, people think I am being arrogant and elitist when all I am doing is stating a fact.

and now Enyeama will get to play in the Champions League. . . . Good one for him

HEY THATS HOW MOTIVATION WORKS.I ALSO THINK ITS CHEESY TO CELEBRATE EVERY INFINITESIMAL ACHIEVEMENT BUT YOU GET BETTER RESULTS WITH CARROTS THAN STICKS. THATS WHY AMERICANS ARE HIGH ACHIEVERS COS IT'S HAMMERED INTO THEIR HEADS THAT THEY "DO WHATEVER THEY WANT TO". YET WE WONDER WHY OUR KIDS FAIL WHEN WE HAMMER INTO THEIR HEADS THAT NOTHING GOOD CAN COME OUT OF D BLACKMAN".WORDS AND D MEDIA IS SOME POWERFUL SHIIT.BEST BELIEVE.IF YOU LIKE GO ON TO ENCOURAGE OR DISCOURAGE UR KIDS OR BE TELLING LIES THAT YOU CARRIED FIRST ALL D TIME INSTEAD OF FINDING OUT WHAT THE CHILD'S TRUE TALENT IS

mama-gee:
Enyeama is the only valuable player in the Nigerian squad.

Others are just worthless players, I don't even get why the NFF won't get rid of them.

thank u my guy,i no knw say u 2 go talk am.in 2005,pple had hope that super eagle would rise back coz of players lik mikel n taye taiwo who just tuk second n third best player for the world youth football championship were being called up to d super eagles squad n wit enyeama,okocha,kanu nigerians thot our dear super eagles would rise back 2 glory bt unfortunately they culdn't meet our expectations except 4 enyeama.Mikel 2 has been trying his best bt he can't jst meet nigerian's expectations.2 bad,poor super fowls.They were once d best in Africa bt nw even Gabon n Libya they beat us.libya wese we beat them before 5-2 nw de lead us.*leaves d thread with an angry hiss*

wrong title. he needs to score a double brace to break "GWR" cos Jose Luis Chilavert has done a hat trick and Peter Schmeichel has two hat tricks to his name (got that from the article)