Football: Blocking With Feet Combination

Goalkeepers must be just as good with saving balls with their feet than their hands. Develop modern goalkeepers who are agile enough to use all parts of their body to keep it out.

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• Use mini goals. Goalkeeeper starts on a cone behind the mini goal.
• Server plays a ball for the mini goal and GK blocks with legs

NOTES

• Do not go down to early but get leg out fast when need arises
• GK to make themselves as wide as possible
• Arms spread but slightly in front of the body

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• Goalkeeper steps away from cone comes through the gate receives a ball into hands
• Returns to server then gets a low shot into dive close to body
• Get into set position initially then step forward into low dive to save before cones in advance of initial gate

Notes:

• Get the step in if required
• If serve close too the body collapse legs and get hands to the ball in front of the body
• Dive forward this called 'Attacking the dive'

 

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M grip: 

• Fingers spread and facing down.
• Almost making a "V" with the hand. 
• Thumbs facing out.
• Let the ball hi the gloves and then scoop the ball up.

W grip:

• Make a "W" with the two thumbs- thumbs not actually touching.
• Fingers to the sky.

Working in twos, with one ball, the keeper must catch the feed into their stomach, throw it back and then backtrack around each pole.

After they've run around the pole, taking small and speedy steps they move out ready to take the next feed.