Possible Clues:

• Crease occupant
• Saving player's energy with a rest
• One interested in net savings?
• The sort of keeper that might go with what's false
• Turn to a story, number one
• Soccer player who protects the target
• Keeper (colloq.)
• 'Footballer to depart' - a story
• Essay, a story one saves
• Deception by country's football player