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“A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.” - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces
It is safe to say American scholar of comparative mythology Joseph Campbell wasn’t thinking a lot about goalkeepers when he wrote the 1949 book The Hero with a Thousand Faces.