I played goalie and mid-fielder myself. It's kind of an odd pairing if you ask me, but I always got placed in those positions as oppose to forward or full defense. You usually want your best conditioned players at mid-fielder in my opinion and the least at goalie, but I'm not a coach so who knows.
That's cool, man. I think my daughter is going to give up MF in the next year or 2. Her passion is goalie, though she has the build to be a great MF. She is 10 and is 4'10 and only weighs 70lbs. The girl is long and lean and can fly down the field but she really loves being goalie. She plays Select for a soccer club and the competition is really good. She doesn't stand back and let anyone shoot on her, either. She hasn't been scored on when she charges the player. She is a very good goalie so I am ok with her giving up MF. She has a much better shot at a scholarship at goalie. Her coach has already told her that the goalie job is her's if she wants it even though there are 3 other goalies on the team. My kid was placed on this team specifically because of her goalie skills while the other girls were placed based on other positions. When I asked her coach about there being 3 other goalies on the team, she said Ashlyn is the only one she knows will be her goalie for sure and if she wants to do it full-time, then the job is her's. If she wants to do it part-time, she will choose one of the other girls to play the other half. She is basically leaving it up to my daughter on playing half the game or the whole game at goalie but I got the impression she is hoping she picks full-time.
