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COACHING POINTS

  • body stance should be with knees bent
  • head over knees over ankles
  • weight on balls of the feet
  • movement should be smooth, continuous and a “chassey-like”, side stepping motion around the goal circle ensuring that feet do not cross over leading to being off balanced. Faster movements and larger steps can be used when running forwards
  • head over the ball in the kicking action

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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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    Speedy Feet | Goal keeping

    Speedy Feet:

  • 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.

    Goal keeping
    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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    Save / Clear (Left Foot - HOKOA) | Goal keeping

    Save / Clear (Left Foot - HOKOA):

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