By Jason Stockman - Recently I have been watching a variety of game highlights from last season’s MLS, the Premier League and the U.S. v Iceland game and received inspiration for this drill. What I started noticing more and more after watching a bunch of highlight videos in a row was how many goals were
Continue readingBy Josh Jones-Keen - Warm Up Keeper should start just in front of the goal line. On command Keeper should position themselves to deal with the shot by sprinting in to the small coned area. Start left to right and have the players vary serves with volleys, half volleys and off the floor strikes. This is
Continue readingBy Josh Jones-Keen - Good positioning can be the difference between a shot going in the top corner or a corner. It could even be the difference between an embarrassing deflecting going straight to the Keepers hands or straight in the back of the net. Simply put I tell my Keepers that they should be making
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I’ve mentioned before that I like to design goalie drills that also use field players or a field drill that actively incorporates a goalie. These type of drills work well for any number of players, can be ideal when maybe only 1 or 2 coaches are present and add to team cohesion by increasing the trust between field players and the goalies.
Today we use this field player-goalie formula to train angles. Specifically, we will be concerned with helping our keepers learn to identify where to place themselves when a player is both coming into and shooting from the penalty box. We want to look at things like getting the right distance between the ball, the goal and any other players that may be open as well as when and how much to commit to going after the ball.
The drill I offer up today is one I call “The V-Wing” and it offers the
Continue readingBy Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.
Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on breakaways.
One of the difficult things about working on breakaways is that much of it comes down to experience. Knowing when to go down, when to stay up, when to come out, when to stay back is extremely difficult and it really does come down to experience. This activity can’t recreate a true game situation but it can help a keeper get accustomed to reading the touch, coming out for the ball and making the save.
This works best with a couple of keepers and a few field players. Each field player will need a ball. One keeper starts in goal and the others are to the side. The field players are near the top of the D.
The first player touches the
Continue readingWelcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on shot blocking, footwork and angles.
Start with a keeper in goal and a few field players on one corner of the 18 with balls.
The first field player starts dribbling across the 18. With each step the keeper has to
Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Todays topic deals with shot blocking and angles. Too often, when a keeper works on shot blocking they do so from a position which has been somewhat predetermined. For example, a server starts with a ball near the top of the D and either takes a touch and a shot
Continue readingWelcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter. Today’s featured activity is a quick shooting activity working on coming in from an angle. The book A Year in the Championship: A complete season of training sessions with Millwall FC shows similar type of activities where they take a simple activity and alter it to make it more effective.
Frequently we see teams do a simple shooting activity where a coach or player stands near the top of the 18 and there is a line of players with balls.
The first player passes into the coach who lays the ball off for