First of all, I am and I remain a goalkeeper, but I try to be involved as much as I can and to help the defenders. I try to read dangerous situations in advance.
Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.
When you are a goalkeeper, you know the responsibility.
To be a modern goalkeeper, I have to think offensively, to initiate our attacking moves safely and securely.
I played soccer all my life and I used to think growing up that they put the fat kid in goal or they put the kid that wasn't good with the ball at their feet in goal and I never wanted to do goalkeeper, I was always the goal scorer.
Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.
It's a strange world, the goalkeeping world.
I had a certain system at penalties, I always watched the goalkeeper.
I hate players who always play the ball back to the goalkeeper.
As a goalkeeper, you want to play.
I think, on one end, we need to understand that goalkeeping is an art and is also a very important position to have in your club.
Each of the top goalkeepers has a particular quality to teach me. I look at Diego Lopez, Iker Casillas, Victor Valdes, Gianluigi Buffon... they all have tremendous experience and ability, and have spent years proving they are the best.
To build more interest in goalkeeping, we have to change how people think and report on goalkeepers. You are not just there to keep the ball out of the back of the net: you are there to impact the back four, to organise the team, essentially lead from the back. It is a really pivotal position.
Every goalkeeper has a different way of playing. Some will take risks to help the team - coming for high balls, being prepared to be attacked in the box knowing there is not much protection from the referees - but that might mean they make more mistakes. Some try to be safer to avoid those situations, but it does not help the team.
It's normal that a club like Barcelona need more than one top-level goalkeeper.
