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Soccer Coaching for Goalkeepers

Watch a video on soccer coaching for goalkeepers on basic handling and shot stopping: See an interactive, 3D animated drill on coaching goalkeepers dealing with low shots: There is also a printable coaches chalkboard session, all designed to assist a soccer coach with soccer training for goalkeepers basic shot stopping and positional skills

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Soccer Training for Goalkeepers – Handling and positioning 

A goalkeeper is a 'specialist technician’. Their position and the skills they need to be effective goalkeepers are unique. In an ideal world, they would always receive specialist goalkeeping training, but this isn’t always possible. So grassrootscoaching.com have put together a coaching goalkeepers section of the members area of the website that deals, very simply, with coaching goalkeepers some of the basic skills they will need to develop and work on.

• Soccer training goalkeepers #1 - Goalkeepers should be as comfortable as outfield players on the ball and should be able to control the ball and pass effectively. Goalies also have to deal with back passes, which require very specific techniques and decisions. 
• Soccer coaching goalies #2 - Distribution skills. Goalkeepers can be a very effective first point of an attack and therefore need very good awareness and distribution skills, both with kicking and throwing the ball. Goalkeepers also need to develop a positive attitude with regards to their distribution
• Training soccer goalkeepers #3 – A goalkeepers will need great concentration skills. A big part of that is to play the game. This will help them greatly with their positional play. Not only when their goal is in danger, but also in general play. A goalkeeper should always adopt a position in relation to where the ball is on the pitch. The position the goalkeeper takes and the communication they use, will greatly influence the position the defenders take in front of them. 
• Soccer coaching GK’s #4 – Goalies need great communication skills. They need to be the “eyes" of the players in front of them. It is important that goalkeepers are able to dictate and provide key information to the players in front of them. Their communication needs to consistent, loud, clear and concise. 
• Training goalkeepers’ #5 – Footwork. Goalkeeper coaches have a saying, “where the feet go, the hands will follow”. Goalkeeping coaching sessions will need to help goalies develop quick feet as it is a vital skill to improve shot stopping and handling. 
• Soccer coaching goalkeepers #6 – Handling. Top goalkeepers have “safe hands”. Their positional sense, their basic shot stopping position and the position of their hands enable them to be able to make a split second decision on whether they are capable of saving the ball and making it safe, or deflecting to a safe area on the pitch. 
• Training soccer goalkeepers #7 – Goalkeepers need to act in a calm, composed manner, this will transmit itself throughout the rest of the team. 
• Soccer coaching goalkeepers #8 - Organisational ability - to be able to structure the defensive shape in front of them and to be able to organise their players at defensive set pieces. 
• Soccer goalkeepers #9 – Being able to understand and be able to demonstrate the basic goalkeeping techniques, such as: saving low, medium, high shots. Diving saves, catching, punching and when to catch and when to deflect to safe areas. 
• Soccer coaching goalkeepers #10 - Commitment and bravery - It takes a lot of courage to dive at an onrushing forwards feet or come for a cross through a crowd of players. 
• Coaching goalkeepers #11 – Power, flexibility and strength - goalkeepers require a specific type of fitness. The skills required include: strength, power, flexibility, suppleness, athleticism and the ability to recover quickly from one save to the next.
• Soccer training goalies #12 - Character and concentration - it is a difficult and lonely job being a goalkeeper. They can go a long time in a game without even touching the ball, or the team is under pressure and they have a lot to do. One great save and they are the hero. One lapse of concentration and a silly mistake, they are the villains.
 

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This soccer training for goalkeepers' video will help you coach, understand and structure a soccer coaching for goalkeepers’ session on dealing with low shots.

Taken from our members' area of coaching goalkeepers, this is an interactive, 3D animated drill on soccer coaching goalies’ skills to improve basic handling and the techniques for handling low shots

All members have access to our planning and design software called "Coaches Chalkboard" Click on to access a soccer coaching for GK's session you can print out and take to training