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0 #143 The Stages of Goalkeeper Development

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0 Keeper Work and Set Pieces

By Mike Smith This session is great before your first seasonal contest, to keep sharp or to prepare for tournament play. Lesson 1 4 Corner Warm Up Set Up Groups of 3 to 4 players take up positions at the corners of the penalty box. The players on the end line alternate diagonal services to the

1 Club Curriculum Building a Better Goalkeeper eBook

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0 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

0 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

1 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

0 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

0 Building From the Goalkeeper

By Alex Trukan The response to many teams trying to build up from the back is improved defending from the front as well as high pressing. This has challenged many teams in their way of preferred attacking strategy. Therefore, it has become increasingly important to use any additional solutions that could potentially help in building up

0 Transition / Switch of Play Using Goalkeepers

4 Keepers Receiving to Feet

By Josh Jones-Keen - I have recently attended the FA’s Goal Keeper Conference at St George’s Park. Over the weekend many topics were discussed and session plans shared, this one caught my eye. I’ve been lucky enough to work with Keepers who love the ball at their feet but a lot of Keepers, at all ages,

0 Goalkeeper Warm-Up

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity is a simple warm up that works on collapse dives, high balls and footwork.

Start with a keeper and a server. The server is 10 yards in front of the keeper with a ball.

The server throws a ball to the keepers side and the keeper

0 Recover and React

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on parries, getting up quickly and making the second save.

Start with a keeper in goal, on one knee, a server 15 yards out with balls and a second server 15 yards out on an angle also with balls.

The first server starts by playing a hard ball to the side of the keeper (the side where

0 Post-To-Post Three Save Drill

By Tony Englund - From the middle of the goal step out four yards and make a three-yard wide goal with two cones. The drill begins with the goalkeeper standing on the first post with another goalkeeper standing six yards away at the corner of the six-yard box with the ball. The coach is positioned with

0 Uncatchable Balls – Parrying

By Josh Jones-Keen - As much as we like to think every shot or cross is catchable that just isn’t the cases. There is a time and a place to catch and a time and a place to parry or punch. Catching should be the number one thought but adjusting to make sure the Keeper gets

0 Uncatchable Balls –Punching

By Josh Jones-Keen - As much as we like to think every shot or cross is catchable that just isn’t the cases. There is a time and a place to catch and a time and a place to parry or punch. Catching should be the number one thought but adjusting to make sure the Keeper gets

0 Defending Set Pieces

By Josh Jones-Keen - Coaches often focus on outfield players when setting up the organisation of the team to defend set pieces however if the Keeper is set up correctly they can then lead the organisation and make the unit much tighter. It is of course up to the Keeper how many they want in the

0 Dealing with Back Passes

By Josh Jones-Keen - Warm Up Full back passes the ball back to the Keeper. The Keeper receives the ball try to switch play to either opposite full back or if short on numbers can use a small goal. To progress once the full back has passed the ball they must become an attacker and put

0 Mano A Mano

By Jason Stockman - So technically speaking “Mano a Mano” (or Mano y Mano) means “hand to hand” – but in many places we see it as “Man to Man”. And that is what today’s drill is about – playing man against man (or woman against woman). One scenario you never want to see your

0 Pre-Game: Hot Box

By Jason Stockman - In the previous Pre-Game Drill (“Pre-Game I – Quick Shot Parade”) we made the most of pre-game warm-up time by using the entire team to work on shooting while getting the keeper ready for the game. In this next installment of pre-game drills however, we’re going to dial in the focus

0 Movement and Footwork

By Josh Jones-Keen - Warm up Keepers move through the disks and the coach will shout ‘left’ or ‘right’ and the Keeper must touch the flag and deal with the serve on the ground from the coach. Keepers touch the left flag, make their way to the centre of the goal and deal with serve from

0 Back and Forth

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

0 Positioning From Different Distances

By 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

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

0 Positioning to Reduce Angles

By 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