When you think about it, a cat is uniquely suited to be trained as a soccer goalie. After all, it combines two of their absolute favorite things to do: batting things away, and ruining someone’s hard work. If you got points for throwing up on a bed, they’d be absolutely unstoppable. It’s not surprising then, that with some actual, intentional training, a cat named Indy quickly became an absolute wall.
We’re not talking about happenstance and luck here, where a ball that’s rolling toward a goal at the speed of slime is coincidentally knocked away. The scale may be smaller, but these are full-speed attempts at a tiny goal, and Indy is defending with Cirque du Soleil-ready body contortions. Again, this is all fun, but we know if he was ever put on a real pitch, a solid shot would have him flying into a net and coming out as cubes on the other side, Looney Tunes style.