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Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper - Part One

WORLD CLASS COACHING Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper By Tony Englund TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One INTRODUCTION TRAINING SESSIONS Part Two TRAINING SESSIONS Part Three TRAINING SESSIONS Part Four TRAINING SESSIONS ABOUT THE AUTHOR   INTRODUCTION “Who wants to play goalie today?” How many younger teams’ pre-game discussions begin with this question? The goalkeeper position

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Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper - Part Two

WORLD CLASS COACHING Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper By Tony Englund TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Two TRAINING SESSIONS   One –Hand Catching in Pairs - 6x4 yard space Players work in pairs with one ball. The goalkeepers stand four yards from one-another and play catch. Instruct players to throw and catch with one hand and

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Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper - Part Three

WORLD CLASS COACHING Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper By Tony Englund TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Three TRAINING SESSIONS Training Session#6: Diving: Collapse, Extension and Blocking. Introduction: After young players are introduced to basic, safe, technical diving, it is useful to teach them that there are multiple types of diving saves, each designed to deal with

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Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper - Part Four

WORLD CLASS COACHING Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper By Tony Englund TABLE OF CONTENTS Part Four TRAINING SESSIONS ABOUT THE AUTHOR Training Session#9: Reaction Saves Introduction: Goalkeepers tend to like to work on reaction saves in part because the training can be very lively and challenging and in part because these saves often end up

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Team and Goalkeeper Training

By Chris Kouns These activities utilize working with the team as a method of creating scenarios for goalkeepers to train in an environment that provides multiple repetitions of technical or tactical skills Activity 1 Set up involves a grid roughly the width of the box (determined by the total number of players you have available

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