From watching your fellow teammates score goals and celebrate with an adrenalized dance, to waiting patiently for your time to shine by saving a goal in a clutch situation – which maybe happens once or twice during a 90-minute game period – goalies are often overshadowed and taken for granted.
But Yannic Horn, a senior goalkeeper for Georgia State’s men’s soccer team, prides himself in being the defensive anchor, so to speak, that his fellow teammates can rely on during any match, even if that means he can’t score goals himself.
Playing the position of goalkeeper, though, is one Horn has learned to love to the core.