Tag Archives for " Corners "

4 Short Corners for Young Teams

This week's Animated Drills Video looks at short corners for younger teams. Since our teams below U12 can't head the ball there's really no point in lining up and crossing a ball into the box. It's very unlikely that the crosser will be able to connect with a player to score a goal. So why

0 Corner Salvo

By Jason Stockman - In a previous article, we worked on positioning for keepers during a corner – more specifically, where keepers should start out, what their area of influence was and learning to deal with increasing numbers of both defenders and attackers. Using what we learned in that article, we can now focus more

1 A Little Off Center

By Jason Stockmann - One of the things that I have found to be challenging for younger keepers is how to position for corner kicks. To be fair, younger field players have a rough go at it as well…they tend to either be milling around aimlessly or almost on the goal line as if the ball

0 Real Sociedad v Real Madrid

By Stevie Grieve

In the recent match between Real Sociedad and Real Madrid, there were 6 goals, with 50% scored from corner kicks, with several other missed headers and 2^nd balls which could’ve resulted in more goals.

Interestingly, both teams chose to leave the back post open with no player on there, which turned out to be a zone which was tried to be exploited by both teams.

Sociedad Corner Routine

• 6 players forward, GK and 3 back, 1 at 35m
• Drilled, flat delivery to around 6m
• 2 men at the front zone for the flick on
• 2 men attack the back – 1 from a central starting position who loops around unmarked
• 1 player on edge of the box for rebounds

Near Post Flick on routine

As the flat ball is drilled in, it has enough pace that a flick on will continue fast enough past the GK and central defensive players. Sociedad look to exploit the back post zone as there is nobody on the

1 How to Deal With Corner Kicks

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on dealing with corner kicks.

Corner kicks are one of the most difficult situations for keepers to deal with. The reasons range from having a lot of players in a small area which makes decision making difficult (“Can I get the ball?”, “Should I punch or catch” etc). It also is difficult as different teams take completely different approaches to corner kicks so the situation a team saw last week might be very different the next week. One big reason corner kicks are so difficult for keepers is they don’t prepare for them enough.

To start you might have a keeper in goal and a player serving balls in from the corner.

The keeper decides whether to come and get the ball or whether to stay back.. The problem is many keepers