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Πέμπτη 23 Ιανουαρίου 2014

Footspeed is vital to goalkeepers

By Tony Carr

Getting your goalkeeper to practice his footspeed is vital to their ability to get in position to block shots. Goalkeepers that are quick off the mark will save your team time after time if they can get it right. Mistakes by goalkeepers are the ones that get punished the most - there is often no chance of righting the wrong.

One of the mistakes that goalkeepers often make is to stand rooted to the spot when faced by advancing attackers. In this exercise you can get your goalkeepers used to moving around and anticipating where the ball will go.

When you are coaching this look out for good positions the goalkeeper gets in to using quick, reaction footwork. Point them out and praise your goalkeeper, they need encouragement so they do it more often.

This coaching session gives them a good work out and should make the goalkeeper work hard. Depending on the amount of space you have and the age of your players you should give your goalkeeper more time to start with so the shooting players should be further away then move them closer as the session continues.

Do not continually point out how poor their position or handling of the ball is. Use more positive instructions like "not a bad move but it would be even better if you used your feet more or were quicker" rather than "that's wrong do this" - they will soon get fed up of the criticism and lose confidence.

Arrange the set up as the diagram shows, using three attackers to fire in shots. Make three goals, red, white and blue using cones. When you call out a colour the goalkeeper runs through the white goal to the red or blue goal, depending on the colour you have shouted out. The player opposite those goals can only shoot once the goalkeeper has gone through the white goal.

If you shout "WHITE" the player can shoot straight away and the goalkeeper must try to get to the goal before it goes in.

Award a point for each goal or save and see if the goalkeeper can beat the attackers. You can also add in some one on ones so the player runs at the goalkeeper rather than just shoots.

You will need a couple of helpers behind this exercise because there will be a lot of balls to retrieve!

What makes a good goalkeeper? By David Clarke

Edwin Van der Sar’s record of clean sheets for Manchester United got me thinking about what makes a good goalkeeper.
A lot of people have been saying Van der Sar is not a brilliant goalkeeper he just has a brilliant defence in front of him. Where are all his shot stopping exploits?
It’s always a misguided view that a good goalkeeper is just about making good saves. What a good goalkeeper also does is control his area and make give his defenders confidence in their relationship on the pitch with him. A good goalkeeper is always in the right place for his defenders and they learn to rely on that.
Van der Sar doesn’t appear to make great saves because his control of the penalty areas is second to none. His distribution and reading of situations means he is more likely to get the ball first time so it is not coming back at him from close range.
Any loose balls are quickly dealt with and his organisation of the players around him gives the defence a better chance of clearing the ball.
In many ways he is a good manager of his position as well as being a gifted player.
When you are coaching your goalkeepers this is what you should think about along with teaching him to dive.

Watch this video of goalkeeper training in Spain with Athletic Bilbao. You can pick up some good ideas to use with your goalkeeper during training sessions.

Quick shooting keeps your goalkeeper on his toes

By David Clarke

Unfortunately, goalkeepers sometimes have to stand around for whole matches with very little to do. But, even if they are feeling underworked they have got to put the effort in during your training sessions so they are ready for that one important save they may need to make during a match.

Of course, there are games where the goalkeeper is constantly having to save his team, and that is when all the hard work you put in during the season pays off.

I like this exercise because it's easy to set up so you can use it to warm-up the goalkeeper before matches or before your coaching sessions. It also helps your strikers practice low shots.

You can vary the width of the goal by moving the cones. Start with a relatively small goal and move the cones further apart at intervals.

The first player takes a shot at the goalkeeper. The goalkeeper tries to save, immediately gets up and turns around ready for the other player to shoot.

Setting this one up is easy. Use a small area with two cones for goal posts. You can vary the width of the goal to test shooters and goalkeeper. You need lots of balls and someone to retrieve the wayward ones! Pick two good attackers and your goalkeeper.

Make it more difficult for your goalkeeper by making him stand next to a post before each shot, or add a player to follow shots in and put pressure on keeper.

Key coaching tips:

Tell your attackers to shoot often and shoot quickly so that they really make the keeper work hard.
Get them to shoot hard and low near the goalkeeper’s body and into the corners to force him to adapt.
Tell your goalkeeper to be on his toes.

Goalkeepers at war 1v1-Tony Carr's

Goalkeepers at war 1v1

This is another good, fun way to get your goalkeeper to practice making shots and to help him with goalkicks. It's a fast 1v1 where each goalkeeper can score using various techniques - throw, kick, drop-kick. As soon as they save they shoot back.

It's all about the ability to get behind the ball and to move across goal as each player tries to score. Encourage your goalkeepers to use both feet and to try different techniques for shooting.

You need two goals, two goalkeepers, plenty of balls. Start with a distance around 15 yards between the two goals and work from there. You can make it harder or easier depending on the size and age of your players.

Goalkeepers start in their own goal. The aim of this game is for each goalkeeper to score more goals than their opponent. Encourage your goalkeepers to serve the ball as quickly as they can - do not let them wait for the other goalkeeper to get ready (they have to be ready at all times just like in a game situation).

Development

Making the area used smaller makes reaction time shorter. Also, you can add a free central player (this can be the coach). This player can set up the goalkeepers for a free shot and also slightly obstruct the view of the saving goalkeeper.