As a parent and a youth goalkeeper coach, I focus on all ways that we can help keep the young keepers physically healthy as they pursue their dreams and become very successful in the role. While the keepers physical health is crucial to their success, it’s only one slice of the cake. Lots of their success will depend on their…
1976: My first pair of goalkeeper gloves
GoalkeepersMy first pair was branded FCS at the time it was a very popular brand, the Indian company banked it when they came out with this concept of goalkeeper gloves. Uhlsport also had a range of GK gloves at the time, but the price range was beyond any middle class families reach. So these were the “Hot-Ticket” for all keepers…
Teaching Goalkeepers how to Handle an Incompetent Referee
GoalkeepersSo what is happening? No sport suffers from the shortage of referees more than soccer. Player participation numbers rise nationally every year while referee organizations grapple with stagnation or decline, leaving youth leagues in a constant scramble to fill empty referee and linesmen slots. Just traveling with my son’s soccer team we encounter dozens of referee vacancies each week. One…
What is the Average Height for a Goalkeeper?
GoalkeepersUnfortunately due to the average heights of goalkeepers that play pro-soccer, scouts and coaches look for players who are manly tall, unless you can show them you can reach where the tall keepers can. We don’t have control over how tall we are, it’s genetics and mother natures stuff. I was pretty lucky, both my mother and father were very…
What It Takes To Be A Quality Goalkeeper
Goalkeepers, Youth SoccerFirst of all, I believe it’s important to get the goalkeepers to understand how you like to play and it is their development that comes first not the result of the games they play on the weekend. Goalkeepers 18 years of age and younger will naturally want to win all the time but they also must understand if they do win the…
How to identify a quality Goalkeeper Coach
GoalkeepersBoys and girls that take goalkeeping very seriously are interested in working with a goalkeeper coach that can actually take your game to the next level. Here are FOUR key factors to look for and questions for parents and keepers to consider when you’re ready to select a goalkeeper coach to work with. 1 – First and most important:…
Today I’ve lost one of my childhood hero’s. Gordon Banks the Goalkeeper of Goalkeepers!
GoalkeepersEngland’s 1966 national team World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks has died aged 81. Regarded as one of the game’s greatest in his position, Banks was named Fifa goalkeeper of the year six times and earned 73 caps for England. When England won that historical World Cup in 1966 I wasn’t even born yet, but growing up in the UK and…
To be a leading goalkeeper coach you have to be “Yourself”
Goalkeepers, Youth SoccerCoaching goalkeepers involves more than designing advanced training drills for saving free kicks or coordinating your defense. Coaching goalkeepers, especially at the youth level, involves accepting big responsibilities as you’re basically in a position of trust as mom’s and dad’s put their kids in your hands. The youth soccer coach in general is one that wears many hats. Being able…
The psychological impact that soccer coaches have on their players
Goalkeepers, Youth SoccerNearly all youth and interscholastic soccer coaches should understand that they have duties such as: Teaching the players about role skills, every day life skills, self esteem skills, communicating effectively among teammates and learning ways to handle a lost game or tournament. It should come as no surprise at all that many soccer players look up to and admire their…
Goalkeepers: The secret is to make the mind work for you, not against you!
GoalkeepersAchieving a goal is by far a wildly exhilarating thing. If you’re mind-set with the idea of giving up, you could be throwing away something wonderful. Goalkeepers wanting to give up between the ages of 13 and 18 is a classic I have gone through a series of very talented keepers wanting to pull the curtain on their possible goalkeeping…
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