It was originally due to a head injury and concussion but now they keep wearing it for protection. All that diving a goalkeeper does, they take a lot of impacts to the head.
That’s an extremely common medical device for athletes who are either recovering from a face injury or are often in situations where they can get elbows to the face. Basketball centers, soccer goal keepers, rugby players in general.
No one’s gonna mention his Phantom Opera/Iron Mask?..
It was originally due to a head injury and concussion but now they keep wearing it for protection. All that diving a goalkeeper does, they take a lot of impacts to the head.
That’s an extremely common medical device for athletes who are either recovering from a face injury or are often in situations where they can get elbows to the face. Basketball centers, soccer goal keepers, rugby players in general.