
The keeper keeps it
in Goalkeeping
Teach your goalkeeper to play the ball out with their feet and start attacks from the back. By GWYNNE WILLIAMS MORE
Goalkeepers should be as comfortable with the ball at their feet as they are with it in their hands, particularly when they receive and clear back passes from their defenders.
1 goalkeeper, 1 server.
Warm up | Session | Developments | Game Situation | Warm Down |
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10 minutes | 10 minutes | 15 minutes | 15 minutes | 10 minutes |
A server moves around the outside of the penalty area, serving the ball toward the 6-yard box from a variety of positions. The keeper attempts to clear the ball towards two markers placed towards the half-way line (depending on the keeper’s age and ability) about 15 yards apart. (These can be, for example disc cones or players who also retrieve the ball.)
The goalkeeper must use the right foot if receiving the ball from the right, and the left if the ball arrives from the left, and can take a controlling touch.
To progress the keeper must clear the pass first time.
The defender can’t play the ball forward so passes back to the keeper.
Introduce a forward who starts from in front and to one side of the server, and who puts pressure on the goalkeeper by attempting to block the clearance.
The back pass, however, must favour the keeper.
A forward applies pressure to the keeper.
Set up a 30-40 yard square at one end of a pitch.
Play 5 defenders plus a goalkeeper versus 5 attackers plus two server/target players. The attackers get points for scoring, while the defenders and keeper get points for clearing the ball to the target players.
If the ball goes out behind the goal-line play restarts with the servers. One of the servers passes the ball to the attacking team to begin the game or once a team is successful.
The goalkeeper doesn’t have time to control the pass, so clears the ball first time to one of the target players.