Blogs about goalkeeper gloves

Since Iker Casillas arrived to Oporto, somthing is going on with his gloves. Can you help us find out what it is?

The Reusche World Keeper are now available so it's a good moment to make a recap on the Top 5 historical gloves from the German brand, Reusch.

SMU: Specially Made Unique. This is used when professional goalkeepers ask for modifications on their gloves. What do Reina and Claudio Bravo modify in the SMU gloves? We have their gloves with us and we will explain it all.

For the past two weeks, Iker Casillas has been wearing the new adidas Predator Pro gloves in white, black and yellow. Since then, there has been a lot of discussion about various aspects: is the cut flat or negative? What is the white fastening on the wrist? Does it alter the thumb? We aim to answer these and other questions about Iker Casillas’ gloves.

Real Madrid experienced a new situation last week : playing on artificial turf. The impressive Luzhniki Stadium and its host, CSKA Moscow, hosted Real Madrid in the last 16 of the Champions League.Many players, especially those who have been at the top level for several seasons, will never have played on a state-of-the-art synthetic turf pitch, known as Field Turf. That is why one of them, one who even uses aluminium studded boots for training, preferred to play with mixed studded boots instead of playing directly on FG or AG studs as we footballers who have to play and train on synthetic turf week after week do.

Within the FG or SG soles there is more and more variety of studs, more and more possibilities: conical, traxion, Hybrid, in triad... In this blog post I am going to review all the possibilities that we are going to find when choosing between the different types of studs.

The maintenance of a glove is one of the issues that worries us the most and that, in general, we don't do it in the right way.Do you want to see some tips to increase your goalkeeper tools' life?