Getting your player ready...
Bad bounces plaguing the goalkeepers? Try an NFL ball. That’s part of Mexico’s solution for the unpredictable way the Jabulani ball has acted early in the World Cup. At Monday’s practice, Mexico goalkeeping coach Alberto Aguilar used NFL footballs in a drill to better prepare his players for, well, that which you can never really prepare for. Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon said it was possible to “hear some deep breaths from the tribune” whenever the Jabulani took flight. “This ball goes and goes and goes. I hope the goalkeepers go, go, go too,” Buffon said.
