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The feeling of sitting on the bench must be mmoga fifa 16 an odd one for any professional footballer.
Some are working their way back from injury, others are youngsters or fringe players looking for a chance. They are watching, hoping for their opportunity, be it through a team-mate’s fatigue, injury or a change in the circumstances on the pitch.
But on the majority of substitute benches there sits an infinitely more curious player. The reserve goalkeeper. Only a tiny percentage will be called into action during a game, in the case of injury or red card for the No1, and in a vast number of cases they know they are destined to warm the bench for most of the campaign. So, what is it like to be the No2?
“People thought I was happy sitting there. I wasn’t,” explained Steve Harper in an exclusive chat with FIFA.The former Newcastle United goalkeeper spent several years as understudy to the club's then perennial No1 Shay Given. Despite working his way in and out of the first team in the years following his arrival in 1993, local lad Harper found himself mostly taking his place on the bench for a five-year spell from 2001.
“For me it was the balance of playing 199 games for Newcastle in front of 52,000, or playing double that at a lower level, a lesser club,” Harper said. “I’d take what I had at Newcastle all day long.”
Substitute goalkeepers sometimes become part of the furniture at their respective clubs, stalwarts respected and appreciated by supporters of their sides. Harper’s dedication is matched by a number of custodians around the globe who fulfilled the necessary, and somewhat thankless, task of the back-up.
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