In Pepe Reina Liverpool have a goalkeeper with a reputation for being one of the world's best penalty stoppers - but now the club has another emerging star with the same talent.
Hungarian youngster Peter Gulacsi showed he could yet go on to emulate our No.25 as one of the finest shoot-out 'keepers in the game when he helped his nation to the last four of the Under-20s World Cup last season.
"I can say that that was the best football experience of my life," he told LFC Weekly. "Going with the national team to a big competition like the World Cup and doing that well was a surprise for the people at home but also for us because we didn't know what to expect."
After emerging from their group, Hungary - who also included Reds youngsters Krisztian Nemeth and Andras Simon in their squad - beat the Czech Republic on penalties in the last 16 before seeing off Italy in the quarter-finals.
They then came unstuck against Ghana in the semis before another penalty shoot-out in the third/fourth place play-off against Costa Rica.
"You cannot judge a goalkeeper on a penalty shoot-out because that is just a little part of goalkeeping," he says. "I was lucky because I had my own little tactics and little tricks and I was successful with them. That was a good thing but to be honest I think it's largely a question of luck."
Also in this week's LFC Weekly - the Reds' 2010-11 fixture list, Stig Inge Bjornebye interview and LFC Weekly's alternative World Cup diary.
Author: LFC Weekly
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22nd Jun 2010 16:18