has it ever happened that a player has passed the ball back to their goaltender, and the goalie mishandles it and the ball goes in their own net? seems highly unlikely but not impossible.
Loads of times, an hilarious own goal of that (or any other) nature is one of the greatest joys of football - as long as it's not your team obviously. But there have been all kinds of unbelievable own goals with players accidentally managing to make their backpass into an unstoppably accurate shot that they could never hope to pull off at the other end in a million years. There have been keepers slipping and throwing the ball into their own net, booting it out and hitting their own player and bouncing back past them, I mean there really have been some absolutely fantastic ones over the years, just thinking about some of them is actually cheering me up a little in fact. Maybe in this thread even there was a bit where we posted some classics of the form - I also remember asking about own goals (own baskets?) in basketball and discovered that it does occasionally there too.
But a quick youtube search turns up a load of goalies making what seem like almost impossibly bad cock-ups. The gloves obviously have a sort of grippy rubber which is aid to with catching and in most of these instances it appears to be that which has spoiled their release and ultimately brought about their undoing - but it's not THAT sticky, it doesn't excuse these kinds of errors... in fact nothing excuses these... enjoy
I'm not sure what level those were, but this was a very famous clanger for England by Robinsion, I can only find it in really low quality and the only explanation I can realistically come up with for that is that Robinson spends every waking minute on the internet deleting any video of the incident that he can find... certainly, if he doesn't then he should do (actually, I'm being unfair, when you see the way that the ball bobbled past him it was extremely unlucky - that really was like some invisible imp had it in for him)
Also, I don't know if you remember the last time England played the US in the world cup before their 0 - 0 bore draw this time round, but I do, and that was also a draw, although on that occasion England at least got the ball in the net and would have won if not for this goalkeeping howler
No real excuse for that though that I see, just horrible goalkeeping that makes the Portuguese keeper I was moaning about look like Gordon Banks.
Being a goalkeeper means you are always under terribly high pressure, there are plenty of outfield players that have made loads of mistakes that show the same error level in terms of competency or lack thereof, but unless they led to a goal they have been long forgotten, while international goalkeeping errors that cause a team to be eliminated from a tournament are destined go down in history and be replayed again and again, both on tv clips and on the insides of the hapless keeper's eyelids as they wake in a cold sweat every single morning (and quite possibly several times a night) for the rest of their entire life. I don't know how people recover from that kind of thing... both to get back and play the game, and also simply to come to terms with it as a person. I'm sure many don't - there must have been players who have never been the same after one horrible moment (what happened to the Liverpool keeper after he gave Madrid two goals in the final about three years ago?)... and there was that Colombian player who was murdered after he scored an own during the world cup.