
My goal is:
Individual advancement and improvement, team and
club cohesion and college opportunities for goalkeepers.
I. Teaching/Training
A. Technical Skills
1. Catching
2. Boxing
3. Parry
4. Diving
5. Crosses
6. Breakaways
7. Distribution
B. Tactical
1. Positioning
2. Communication
3. Defensive Coordination
4. Offense Minded
C. Video taping training and games with analysis
D. Focusing on how to: Train, Compete and Win
Training can be conducted in three or four one hour sessions. The sessions will be broken down based on age and ability. The oldest age groups (under 18’s through under 16’s) will have the opportunity to learn to train younger goalkeepers to hone their own skills and learn how to run a training clinic while away at college or a future in goalkeeper training.
II. Practice
A. Goalkeeper’s Team Practice
1. Work with goalkeeper, team
and coach/trainer
a.
Get everyone on the same page loud and clear
2. Entire team learns how
to communicate
3. Team learns the concept
of the goalkeeper being the first line of offense
4. Individual responsibility
of field players when the goalkeeper has the ball
5. How to team defend
a.
Set plays (setting walls)
b.
Corners
c.
Goalkeeper coming out of goal
d.
Pass backs
III. Games
A. Integrate game watching
B . Breakdown and feedback of game play
C . Video feedback
IV. Shooting (Finishing) Practice
A. Excellent training scenario for controlled
repetitions.
B. Fine tune technical skills
1. Catch, box and parry
2. Foot and hand speed and
positioning
3. Mental toughness
V. Clinics with Parents, Coaches and Trainers
A. Teach and train all
aspects of goalkeeper training so everyone knows how the goalkeepers
have been trained and what to expect from their age group.