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  • Setup as shown.
  • Coach and goalkeeper about 1m apart.

    • Coach starts with some balls about 8m out. The coach feeds the ball to the goalkeeper who quickly kicks the ball into the goal. This can be done on either foot or a mixture of both feet.

    If the goalkeeper finds it to hard, then move further back to give them more reaction time.

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  • Make sure that the goalkeeper stays on their toes, with their weight forward.

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    Touch the cone and save | Goal keeping

    Touch the cone and save:

    Coach stands at the top of the circle and calls out a colour of a cone. Goal keeper has to touch the cone and recover back to the goal to try and save the shot.

    Coach should give the GK a Change. (how ever small)

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    Triangle Movement Drill | Goal keeping

    Triangle Movement Drill:

  • Setup the practice as shown.
  • The space between the penalty spot and the 1st cone should be 2m and the same distance between the penalty spot cone and the cone nearest the top of the circle.

    • The goalkeeper starts on the penalty spot and on the command moves forwards to the first cone before moving diagonally backwards to cone 2 and then moves sideways back to the penalty spot to kick the ball into the goal.

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    Kick through Gates | Goal keeping

    Kick through Gates:

  • Setup as shown.

    • Goalkeeper starts behind the line and advances 1 pace towards the feeder, who strikes the ball at goal to either corner.

    The feeder can work further back and strike the ball harder as the goalkeepers confidence grows.

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    Kicking Warm-Up | Goal keeping

    Kicking Warm-Up:

    The ball is fed into the goalkeeper in the middle of the goal. The goalkeeper has to kick the ball back to either player A or B.

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