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was having this discussion with a friend about the difference in tactics and team line up having a footballing keeper makes, our discussion was in relation to how high up the pitch/close to the edge of the penalty area Lloris plays in comparison to Friedel, and how Lloris allows Spurs to press higher up the field as he's sweeping behind if any long balls come over the top, whereas with Friedel there was acres of space for opposing forwards to run into unopposed as he was sat on his goal line...
Friend bought up Robert Enke who he was reading about in Ronald Reng's biography A Life Too Short, and I paraphrase, but he'd read how Enke had moved from Monchengladbach to Benfica, and had been told he wasn't playing far enough out, having spent all of his career being a shot stopper, old school on the line kind of keeper, and Enke found this really uncomfortable, but he knuckled down and made the change, moved ten to fifteen feet further forward, played well, and then got signed by Barcelona who wanted him to play even further forwards. His time there didn't go well and he was eventually ousted by the then debutante Valdes, who was/is a footballing keeper...
(some of the above maybe misremembered, if you have actually read the book and can better illustrate the point being made feel free)