Dayne St. Clair standing tall despite Minnesota’s early-season struggles

Dayne St. Clair of Minnesota United FC during the first half of the match against the Seattle Sounders FC at Lumen Field on April 16, 2021 in Seattle, Wash.Having seen more illustrious teammates, including a pair of Argentine standouts and the nephew of the Liberian president, repeatedly try and fail to find the net on Saturday, it seemed only fair that Dayne St. Clair got his shot as well.

Some young goalkeepers might have felt chastened by that loss, and the resulting hangover might last well into the next season. But almost none of the seven goals that Minnesota has conceded this season could be attributed to any mistake by St. Clair – Loons head coach Adrian Heath said on Friday that the team had “left him out to dry on a couple of them.”

On paper, there isn’t a whole lot that St. Clair could improve on. The Canadian keeper started the final 16 games of the season for the Loons last year, regular season and playoffs, had eight clean sheets and conceded just 15 goals. Kerr, no stranger to penalty success himself, having once saved a spot kick from Paul Gascoigne while playing in an Old Firm game for Celtic, says St. Clair’s calmness under pressure is a key part of his success. And while he says the two will go over tape of the opposition’s penalty taker in advance of a game, he never wants his goalkeepers to approach the moment with a predetermined plan.

His early career success hasn’t gone unnoticed by the national-team hierarchy either. He was supposed to be part of the under-23 squad going to the original Olympic qualifying tournament in Mexico last year that was wiped out by COVID-19. “Seeing some of the guys like Atiba [Hutchinson] that have worn the shirt for a long time and brought the program a very long way kind of just to connect it all together I think is something special and something I hope to continue to be a part of,” St. Clair said.

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