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"If you're a goalkeeper, it doesn't matter what you save the ball with;
if you keep it out, it's not a goal." -Mark Lawrenson
Welcome to my new BAP Story for FM16, this time I will be focusing on the man in the goal. I hope you will enjoy reading and following this story as I will enjoy spinning a story about Alex Roy, Canadian goalkeeper and maybe a future superstar.
if you keep it out, it's not a goal." -Mark Lawrenson
Welcome to my new BAP Story for FM16, this time I will be focusing on the man in the goal. I hope you will enjoy reading and following this story as I will enjoy spinning a story about Alex Roy, Canadian goalkeeper and maybe a future superstar.
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Montreal Impact promote talented Alex Roy
Montreal Gazette | January 1, 2015
Impact GM(General Manager) confirmed yesterday at a press conference that Alex Roy, 17 year old goalkeeper has been promoted from reserves into the first team for the upcoming Major League Soccer season. This caps a remarkable rise for Roy, just having made the step up to reserves last season after joining the academy as a 13 year old.
Roy was born in Quebec City to an English father who was a Sunday League soccer player and a Canadian mother.
View attachment 171597Impact GM(General Manager) confirmed yesterday at a press conference that Alex Roy, 17 year old goalkeeper has been promoted from reserves into the first team for the upcoming Major League Soccer season. This caps a remarkable rise for Roy, just having made the step up to reserves last season after joining the academy as a 13 year old.
Roy was born in Quebec City to an English father who was a Sunday League soccer player and a Canadian mother.
"My upbringing was great, yea my Dad was a footballer, he would love to just get out and kick the ball around, often would bring me along and I would dribble the ball around the all the guys and score a lot.
We did move to England for a while, I was about 5 when my grandfather was very sick so Dad uprooted us over to Liverpool for 4 years, but to me it was the best experience of my life, I mean I got to see Liverpool actually play!That was when I started to take soccer seriously so I started playing for school teams.
Coaches did struggle to work out what position I would be great in, I bagging a lot of goals as a striker back then! The decision to become a goalkeeper actually came when we moved back to Canada to Montreal.
I was playing for a school team for a game and they had no one in the goal, so I volunteered myself and we were playing against a bigger older team, big thugs I would say, they were literally kicking the **** out of us and were peppering the goal with a lot of shots, but none went in. I was just throwing myself at every single shot and somehow kept all them out.
My father was watching this game and said to me this after the game,"Son, that was a performance that Pepe Reina could be proud of, you should become the goalkeeper now on"
And he was right, so I played keeper for rest of that season and we won the championship. I would continue playing with them for the next few years until Montreal Impact Academy came along and asked me to join them. I actually had offers from them and other MLS teams when I was ten but I turned them down as my father believed I should have a childhood a bit before I got serious."
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Roy would spend the next few years training and playing in the academy, often captaining the team on the pitch and practicing in his own time with his father. He made the step up to the reserves last year where his performances have been nothing short of amazing, leading the side to a title charge.
Now Roy has made the first team and looks to battle with Americans Eric Kronberg and Evan Bushover the starting spot.
Bush had a few words about the youngster,
"Roy is one the of best talent I have seen for some time, he is just determined to achieve his goals and he does have a bite on him out on the field,but that's what makes him a keeper, always commanding and shouting from the back. Roy does have excellent shot stopping skills, he just reacts so quickly. I think he has a great career ahead of him and looking forward to challenging him to the goalkeeping spot for the season."
When asked who his heroes were Roy listed his father, Joe Hart, Manuel Neuer and Pepe Reina.
Fans have likened Alex Roy with the great "Saint" Patrick Roy, the retired ice hockey goaltender who coincidentally is born from Quebec City.
Will he fulfill his promise over the upcoming season?
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(Ex junior GK playing in wing today)
