The History of American Goalkeeping continues with its fourth installment. Goalkeeper junkie Chris Barocas joins the podcast to speak on his time growing up playing goalkeeper in the 80s and 90s and how that ultimately led him to his current role as a goalkeeper coach for Chattanooga FC. Prior to joining Chattanooga, Chris coached at Inter Miami, New York Red Bulls, and Orlando City. Although goalkeeper coaches are typically known for having well-thought philosophies, Chris came prepared for our conversation with excellent hindsight and analysis of the current game.
9 Jul 2025
The History of American Goalkeeping (Part 3)
For the third episode in the History of American Goalkeeping, Lori Kats and Bill Reno speak on what goalkeeping was like in the late 70s and early 80s in women’s soccer. Lori Kats was the first All-American goalkeeper in college soccer history and is a perfect guest to speak on the challenges in not only trying to figure out how to play a position with limited resources (lack of goalkeeper coaches or Instagram), but also pioneering the game itself for women in the US.
After two years at Lewis and Clark, Lori transferred to the University of Oregon, where she would finish her undergraduate degree, ultimately winning all-conference each year at both schools. Lori had a brief tryout with the USWNT in 1985 before finishing up as one of the true legends in American soccer. There are a lot of “greats” in soccer but there’s only one “first”.
After the interview, Lori shared letters from the "International Sports Exchange" and the head coach at Colorado College about an all-star trip to Europe that she was invited on, including a patch each player received.
23 Jun 2024
The History of American Goalkeeping (Part 2 of 4)
Continuing my four part series where we dive into the history of American goalkeeping. In the first episode, Steve Holroyd helped shed some light on the pre-NASL years and how American goalkeepers featured into the landscape. In our second episode we have Dr. Joe Machnik to talk about the next chapter in American goalkeeping with the NASL-era. In the previous talk, we mentioned the lack of goalkeeping education and how goalkeepers were largely on their own figuring out the position day-by-day. But here we start to see the beginnings of the American goalkeeping framework through the Dr. Machnik’s goalkeeper camps.
It was really difficult not to turn the conversation into me just asking him a bunch of questions about his career as one doesn’t end up in the US Soccer Hall of Fame by staying inside every day, but Dr. Machnik is the perfect guest to talk about this time as someone who watched it, participated in it, and shaped it for many years to come.
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