By Lawrence Fine, Author of the FineSoccer Coaching Bible.
Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity is a team warm up that helps the keeper with catching, footwork, and coming forward.
Start with two lines of players 30 yards apart. Each player has a ball. There is a 3 x 3 square in the middle with a keeper.
The keeper is defending the square. He picks one side to
Continue readingWelcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity is a warm up that involves the entire team.
In the center circle have the field players dribbling around at full speed. Two keepers are also in the circle
The players are dribbling at speed and the keepers look for
Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter. Today’s featured activity works on a keeper reading the situation when the ball is on the end line. This activity is great for keepers as well as the rest of the team.
Start with a keeper in goal, an attacking player on the end line just outside the 18, a defender 3 yards behind the player on the end line and a few attacking and defending players in the 18.
As soon as the attacker with the ball touches it, the game is live.
The attacker can dribble straight toward
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