Almunia also suffered from asthma when he was younger. Telling us also as a child he always wanted to be an outfield player, but suffering from asthma, his father didn’t let him run much. That’s what kept him in goal for his love for football.

These are his exact words.

“I’m a goalkeeper because I couldn’t run anywhere,” he revealed.

“I wanted to be an outfield player, but my father did not allow me to run a lot, so I was between the sticks all the time.

“All children want to score goals and I wanted to be a striker, but from the time I first played football, when I was six or seven years old, I was a goalkeeper.”