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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.

The Forgotten Ones

2/11/2019

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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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Coaching the Goalkeeper Off the Ball

9/28/2017

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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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Importance of a proper Warm Up

8/11/2017

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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.
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5 Things to think about when dealing with your Youth Goalkeeper

7/17/2017

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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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When a "Great Save" really isn't

7/3/2017

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​As I walk past games or watch opponents I'll commonly hear the words "Great Save!" being yelled from the sidelines. Except....it wasn't. The ball was batted away and it's popped out for a rebound, or now the team is dealing with a corner kick when all the goalkeeper had to do was catch the ball.


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Bravery Wanted

2/9/2017

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Be Brave


​How can you identify a goalkeeper? There are many attributes that create a strong goalkeeper, but Bravery stands out the most in younger players. Goalkeepers need to be brave in order to learn and develop new skills. As a goalkeeper a player must leave their comfort zone and push their mind and body past preconceived limits. Being a goalkeeper goes against human nature.


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Preparing players to play in Goal

1/3/2017

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Grassroots coaches spend their time teaching young players new to the game how to dribble, pass and shoot. These skills are performed with their feet and are the only part of the game covered for all players. After all, every player needs these skills to play the game. But one of the most important positions needed for the game to be competitive is completely forgotten. 


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How Often Do You Train?

8/31/2016

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Most teams will train 2-3 times a week depending on level and age. This schedule is highly accepted because in order to improve we must revisit our skill set to continue to build our tool kit. Some players choose to add an extra training session each week to gain even more knowledge. So the majority of players are spending at least 3-6 hours a week of instructional learning with the ball at their feet. On the flip side goalkeepers are lucky if they get one session a week of specific training time.
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Goal Kicks are a skill

8/24/2016

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Goal kick!.... or otherwise know as a great scoring opportunity. In our hockey city where dump and chase is a tactic applied to the soccer field, a goal kick is an advantage to the attacking team. The reason for this is we don't teach our goalkeepers to strike a ball. Usually if we want to get the ball up the field, we get one of our “big kickers” to take the goal kicks. But how is this helping to develop our goalkeepers?


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Athletes as Goalkeepers

8/16/2016

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Being a goalkeeper is a special skill, and because of such it requires special training. Unfortunately it's often a forgotten position or an afterthought. We steer our athletes to “glory” positions such as striker or central midfield, we teach our youth that being in goal is only for the “weird kid” or the one who doesn't want to run. Parents are afraid that their child will become injured, get bored, or not have fun as a goalkeeper. But our soccer community couldn't be more wrong.


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

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