12-09-2019, 02:37 PM
UNC's keeper I think was trying to stay cool and calm since that is key to great keeping. However, her face and body language was more in the realm of...
"This is hopeless. Eventually we will lose."
I am sure that was NOT the message she was going for, but since PKs have so much gamesmanship and psychology I am not sure it was the best look for her.
Meyer was over the top with her fun, carefree, I will win this for us, approach. She flew over to the Stanford students. She jumped and grabbed both crossbars. It just felt like she was reminding everyone that this PK-thingy will be a lot of fun since she will win this for us. That probably was not the best for staying focused in the moment as a keeper, but it created such a level of confidence in the venue.
For most of the season the team could have had almost any student with even a few years of youth soccer experience at keeper and still easily won those games, which likely led UCLA to hope she was an untested and weak link. It is really great for her, and the program, to be able show that the keeper was pretty good too.
"This is hopeless. Eventually we will lose."
I am sure that was NOT the message she was going for, but since PKs have so much gamesmanship and psychology I am not sure it was the best look for her.
Meyer was over the top with her fun, carefree, I will win this for us, approach. She flew over to the Stanford students. She jumped and grabbed both crossbars. It just felt like she was reminding everyone that this PK-thingy will be a lot of fun since she will win this for us. That probably was not the best for staying focused in the moment as a keeper, but it created such a level of confidence in the venue.
For most of the season the team could have had almost any student with even a few years of youth soccer experience at keeper and still easily won those games, which likely led UCLA to hope she was an untested and weak link. It is really great for her, and the program, to be able show that the keeper was pretty good too.