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0 Shot Blocking, Footwork and Rebounds

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on shot blocking, footwork and dealing with rebounds.

Start with a keeper in goal and three servers on the field. The first one is 15 yards out, even with the 6 yard box with balls. The second one is 15 yards out, even with the other side of the 6, with balls and the third is at the 12 yard spot.

The keeper starts by sliding and

0 Developing Good Habits to Deal with Rebounds

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter.  Today’s topic deals with developing good habits to deal with rebounds.

Coaches like to do a lot of pressure training which can be defined as a lot of activity in a short period of time.  An example of this would be a server with a line of balls and a keeper in goal.

The server shoots the balls as quickly as

0 Recovering For Rebounds

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on shot blocking and getting up quickly for rebounds.

Start with a keeper in goal, a server at the top of the 18 and two other servers on angles. Each of the servers has a few balls.

The server in the middle starts by shooting toward

0 The Importance Of Finishing Rebounds

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the FineSoccer Drills Newsletter.  Today’s featured activity works on getting to goals and finishing rebounds.

Everyone loves the great shot.  The blast from 30 yards out.  The half volley from the top of the 18.  The bicycle kick off of a cross.  The thing people tend to forget is all goals count the same. Whether it’s a spectacular goal or a simple goal, they all count as one.  For every spectacular goal, there are many more simple goals coming off of rebounds.  The player who scores a goal off of a rebound doesn’t get nearly enough credit for being in the right place and making the effort to get to the ball first.

This activity is a  4 v 3 with a “keeper” in goal.  The reason I put “keeper” in parentheses is because I would recommend using a coach or field player as opposed to a real keeper because a real keeper might develop bad habits in this game.

This is a regular game except all shots must be below waist height and the keeper can not use his hands.  They must defend using the

0 Making a Save, Then Saving the Rebound

By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter.  Today’s featured activity works on a keepers recovery

Start with a keeper on the ground, as if they just dove and made the save but couldn’t hold onto the ball (in the diagram below, it shows the keeper with the ball in his hands but that is just a limitation of the graphics).  A field player is around 12 yards out and a server is on the goal line with a ball.

The server plays a ball out to the field player (which recreates the

0 Movement, Shot Blocking and Rebounds

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter.  Today's featured activity works on movement, shot blocking and rebounds.

Start with a keeper in goal, player 1 even with a goal post 12 yards out and player 2 15 yards out with a ball.

The keeper starts by positioning himself to cut off the angle as if player 1 is about to

0 Reacting to Rebounds

Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter.  Today’s featured activity works on reacting to rebounds.

Most of a keepers training deals with balls coming toward them.  It makes sense since most shots come toward the keeper.  The thing to keep in mind is when there is a rebound (off the keeper, off the posts, off a defender) the ball might be going away from the goal.

Here is a simple activity to work on reactions and covering rebounds.

Start with a keeper standing in a ready position and a server 5 yards behind him with a ball in his hands.

The server tosses the ball against the keepers back and as soon as the