Guys, can you please help. I am looking to get my YouTube Channel to 9000 subsribers... So if you get a moment, can you please pop over to https://www.youtube.com/@Just4KeepersHQ and subscribe. Also, if you subscribe and watch and like a few of my videos like attached, more ofmy videos will show on up on your feed... And for the keepers/parents who want o make a career out of goalkeeping, there is alot of videos that i have done that will give you the edge on your competition! Thanks in advance Ray

We had our first preseason friendly this morning against a team that was in a higher league then us last season. We won 9-1 which sounds like i didn't do anything but I had to make quite a few big saves including a triple save and won 1v1's. I had a big part in playing out from the back, doing goal kicks, pass backs and throwing out to my wingers the whole team played brilliantly. The goal i conceded the ball hit me full on in the eye and I couldn't see for a while from dust and on a 1v1 the player literally tried running through me but all good 😂

New arrival of gloves and towel ready for the next season 😬

My mum and i should of been having a chat with the EJA coach next week after my third trial which is the game on Sunday as to whether I was successful in making the team. But my mum just got a message from the coach saying he was really impressed with me and I've fitted in well with the team and if I'm interested he would like to offer me number 1 keeper and he would love me to be a part of the team. I am soooo happy and really excited for the season

Every Thursday, I will share my story of trying to achieve my dream to become a professional goalkeeper as a child, to getting rejected time and time again - Hopefully my stories will inspire you(or your goalkeeper child) to achieve your goalkeeping dreams. PLEASE SHARE this story with any young goalkeeper (or parent) who are struggling! From the age of 13, I had trials with three or four professional clubs almost every season. But time after time, I came home with the same message: “You are not good enough.” Those words hurt more every time I heard them. Parents who watched me play every week told my dad I was good enough. My dad believed in me too. Yet the clubs kept saying no. It got worse when lads from my school and Sunday team started getting signed by pro academies. I was happy for them, but it hurt. Some of them, in my honest opinion, were no better than me. I’d go home wondering what I was doing wrong! So, you can imagine, when I got to the end of my school year and everyone was leaving school, I thought my dream was over. I grew up on a council estate in Liverpool, and probably every friend I had at the time was expected to leave school, get any job and bring home a wage. Thankfully, my parents were different. They never once pressured me to give up football. They told me to keep training, keep believing, keep going and stay on at school. But, as you can imagine, again I thought my dream was over because, when I got to the end of my SECOND year in sixth form and I was just three months away from my 18th birthday, I made the decision that I could no longer expect my parents to keep supporting me. I needed to find a job. However, then everything changed WITHIN THREE WEEKS!!! With three months of school remaining, a mate called Roy Muscat got me a trial, and I signed for St Helens Town Reserves. I’d played three games when I was told I’d be playing for the first team because the first-team keeper, Joe Paladino, had gone on trial with Wigan Athletic.