Soccer: Catch Place Recover

Introduce goalkeepers to recovery lines and efficiency of movement across the goals. Check the GK is moving into line with the ball when making the save.

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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'

 

• 2 GK's working at the same time.
• GK's begin between 2 cones, facing eachother.
• GK gets a shot into hands from a wide server. Then GK goes around the front cone for a shot into dive from a 2nd straight server.
• Gk's get back up to feet and the drill is reversed.

• GK starts in centre of the goal and a row of cones are placed to one side of the goal.
• With quick feet the GK flicks one of the cones with their leading hand and quickly gets into set position to make a save.

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• Mark out 3 gates in a line with coloured cones. 
• Two goalkeepers working together about 10 yards away from the cones.
• First goalkeeper plays the ball through the cones and shouts a colour
• GK 2 then has to take a touch and play the ball through the coloured gate that has been called.  
• Switch which goalkeeper calls and which plays the ball.