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Goalkeeping Edition 70
Welcome to the Goalkeeping Newsletter.
Today's edition will deal with helping keepers improve their footwork.
First I would like to apologize for being late
with this newsletter (as well as the other ones). I brought a group up
to an NSCAA coaching course to be used as demonstrators and did not have
access to email. Because of this, neither newsletters nor any responses
to questions went out before today. Because of my keeper camp in Atlanta
this week, I will again be late getting things out next week. Everything
should be back to normal after this upcoming week.
The footwork drill I want to talk about was
demonstrated by Tony Waiters (former Canadian national team coach and
considered one of the premier keeper coaches in the world). He simply
had a group of keepers line up and they had to mirror each of the
leaders (a person who was facing the keepers) movements. For example, if
the leader goes to her right, the keepers must go to their left. If the
leader goes to her left, the keepers must go to their right. If the
leader goes forward, the keepers go backwards and if the leader goes
backwards, the keepers go forward.
He did this for around 5 minutes and then talked
about how a keeper should be prepared to do this for an entire game (the term
he used was keeping the motor running which was his way of saying keepers must
keep their feet moving at all times). Try this for 10
minutes and you will get a good idea of how hard being a real keeper can be.
If you want to really complicate matters, you can
have the leader go diagonally as well with the keepers matching them step for
step.
This drill can be done with as many keepers as you
have available or with just one keeper and one leader.
Keepers must have quick feet and good conditioning
and focus in order to do this successfully.
If you have any comments, suggestions or questions
you can send them to
comments@finesoccer.com
(but expect a delay till next weekend for a response) or post them at
http://finesoccer.com/forum.htm.
Also, don't forget about the contest that is being
run. Check it out at
http://finesoccer.com/contest.htm
Have a great day.
Lawrence
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