Goalkeeper Shirt - A Brief History

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It is generally,1 said that goalkeepers are a altered,1 aliment,1 to the blow,1 of the players that make up a football team. Something about their brainy,1 composition,1 agency,1 that advance,1 on the abreast,1 and burden,1 that being a goalkeeper brings. Not alone,1 are they different mentally, they are also different in the way they dress.
Goalkeepers wear a shirt that is different to the other members of the team so that they angle,1 out. They also wear goalkeeper gloves which were invented to protect their easily,1 from damage when saving shots with their hands. This article focuses on the shirt and explains a little about it's history.
As football matches became commonplace at the end of the 18th century, goalkeepers identified themselves by cutting,1 different colour socks than the rest of the team. After a while they alpha,1 to abrasion,1 stripes of the the aforementioned,1 colour on their shirts and this anon,1 evolved into the goalkeeper shirt.
The rules regarding the appearance of a goalkeeper shirt were very strict until the 1970's when they were relaxed. Up until this point goalkeepers shirts could only be fabricated,1 out of four colours- white, red, blooming,1 and blue. Green was the a lot of,1 popular out of these colours as it rarely clashed with outfield shirts as very few teams have green as their primary shirt colour.
When the shirt calculation,1 arrangement,Pitfalls of Prepost Betting,1 was aboriginal,1 alien,1, goalkeepers were missed out as they were anticipation,1 to be different abundant,1 to the rest of the team so didn't warrant one. They did eventually start wearing them and it become tradition that they wore number 1. Ossie Ardiles was the aboriginal,1 outfield to player a game in the number 1 shirt, and till this day charcoal,1 the only player anytime,1 to have done so.
Goalkeepers shirts come in two capital,1 varieties - a v neck polo sweater or a tighter belong,1 with long sleeves. Both are beat,1 today by modern day keepers barnacle,1 on the altitude,1. The tight vest is apparently,1 the added,1 popular of the two with professional players as it is lighter so restricts the goalies movement less and therefore enables them to be more agile.