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The Forgotten Keeper

Sometimes as a goalkeeper or goalkeepers parent you can feel like your alone on an island. Keepertec has your back and feels your pain. Remember that without a goalkeeper, soccer would be a very boring and pointless game.
KeeperTec has a strong focus on developing goalkeepers starting at the Grassroots through to University.
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5/1/2022

the different types of goalkeeper training

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It's unfortunate that many believe goalkeeper training simply revolves around a goalkeeper receiving shots or even a series of predictable shots. This can help, but it's not going to prepare you for actually playing the game each week.

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11/7/2020

Protecting our facility

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KeeperTec is committed to do everything we can to keep our athletes and parents safe.  This is why we had ZeroBlast protect our facility with their antimicrobial surface protection.  

This is the same extra level of protection the Vancouver WhiteCaps, UBC Thunderbirds, FC Dallas, Coquitlam Metroford Soccer Club, TSS Soccer Centre and Vernon Toyota Sports Center all have implemented to ensure their athletes are better protected


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2/11/2019

The Forgotten Ones

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Developing female goalkeepers
This editorial was written by Adrienne Cook and originally posted on tss.ca 

Over the past 10 years, TSS has been helping countless young female players get recruited to university level soccer. As you can imagine, this has produced many conversations with a variety of university coaches about their needs for the upcoming season. It’s been impossible not to recognize a common trend from those conversations: the need for a strong goalkeeper. Year after year, we hear this need echoed by coaches on the female side of the game. This demand is second only to that of strikers...but that’s a topic for another time.

Coaches at the top levels of the game understand the difference a strong and confident goalkeeper can make to their team. They know a goalkeeper can be the difference between a winning and a loosing season. For teams that do enjoy the benefits of a strong goalkeeper, there is always the nagging worry that if she gets injured, things may go sideways fast given the lack of depth in the position.


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9/1/2018

KeeperTec Philosophy

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KeeperTec Philosophy
Development is key to the success of any player at any position. So much more goes into becoming a goalkeeper. Not only must you be confident with your hands but with your feet as well. You really must be the complete athlete.

Learning is done in a very special way and we base our methods on the following theory as laid out by Fitts and Posner in 1967.

​They suggested that the learning process is sequential and that we move through specific phases as we learn. There are three stages to learning a new skill:



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10/20/2017

Learning a New Sport

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When was the last time you learned something new? Or more specifically tried to learn a new sport? Something unlike anything you've done before, something that takes you out of your comfort zone and unbalances you? This is what kids feel constantly when we introduce them to a new sport. This post focuses on that concept... More specifically I'm going to share with you what learning a new sport in my 30's taught me about learning.

As a Canadian kid I grew up in a hockey loving family. Hockey was always on TV and my grandfather was an ex player and coach. In an era where girls barely played soccer, let alone hockey, I gravitated to the beautiful game. I started organized soccer at an early age and continued on until I hung up my gloves and started coaching instead. But realistically Hockey was in my blood. I don't even remember being taught how to shoot a wrist shot, it just happened. I played street hockey with the boys and spent hours out side with a stick, net and tennis ball. I loved it! As I got older I still enjoyed watching it, but as kids do, stopped going out to the street to play. ​


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9/28/2017

Coaching the Goalkeeper Off the Ball

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I attended a tournament recently and was amazed to see how many youth goalkeepers where disconnected from their teams when the ball was in the opponents half. Many youth goalkeepers where standing inside their 6 yard box. 


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8/21/2017

Having a Mentor in Sports

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Having a Mentor
As I look back at all the coaches I've had, I can clearly name those who had an impact on me. I still remember to coach that taught me to love the game, I remember the coach who convinced me I was capable of doing something within this game, and I remember the coach who was able to help take my game to the next level. All of these coaches will forever hold a special place in my heart for that specific time in my life. After all I would not have been the player I was or turned into the coach I am without them. 



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8/18/2017

Goalkeeper Warm Up - by KeeperTec

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To follow up on our post about the importance-of-a-proper-warm-up for a goalkeeper I've created a video with an example. Below the video you'll find more detail on each aspect.

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8/11/2017

Importance of a proper Warm Up

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I've come across many goalkeepers who love a "Good Warm Up". When a keeper is warm they feel ready and do anything and extend their body and mind to the levels needed for success in this position.

It's difficult because many coaches (not just at the grassroots level) have no idea what it takes for a goalkeeper to be warm and ready to go. In the near future we'll be posting a video along with some information about a suggest warm up for your keepers, but until then let's talk about why it's important for your keeper and what a warm up environment should look like.
KeeperTec Goalkeeper Warm Up

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7/17/2017

5 Things to think about when dealing with your Youth Goalkeeper

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KeeperTec Forgotten Keeper
Goalkeepers are often forgotten (just as the title of this blog suggests) or are simply expected to know how to perform aspects of the position because they put up their hand and volunteered to play it. Goalkeeping is a special position and to be successful they require individualized training. But what can every grassroots coach do to help their goalkeeper develop?


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    Adrienne loves to teach and see the lightbulb go off with a player when everything clicks.

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