Goalkeeping - Looking After Number One by Bob Warby

Author:Bob Warby [Warby, Bob]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Football Goalkeeper Coaching
Publisher: warbygk.com
Published: 2010-11-16T05:00:00+00:00

We must be as tactically astute as possible, and indeed even as writing this I am creating a portfolio for ‘my boys’ (see I told you it happens!) on the tactics deployed by the managers within our club. I have asked the gaffers for their formations and players, and also for defensive situations as well as attacking options. I have done this because I try to encourage my keepers to become a coach from the back. If they are aware of the formation and instantly know that the full back is in a bad position, then they can be pro-active in their communication to solve the issue. There has been a huge amount of emphasis on creating technically good goalkeepers, and I am guilty of this one, because of the large number of junior goalkeepers an Academy coach has to deal with in one session means that all he can do is concentrate on the basics. The Academy coach will invariably have ages from 8, 9 or 10 up to 16 year olds and the schedule for their training is massively different. On top of the age ranges you only really work with goalkeepers so touching on team tactics is always going to be an uphill struggle as you cannot clearly demonstrate success without having the field players who are natural in their roles available. There is nothing wrong with focussing on creating the ‘technically perfect’ goalkeeper, and this is always my aim for our Under 16 keepers. If they haven’t mastered the basics plus a little of the tactical side then they are always going to struggle. The first thing that I noticed when I joined my present club was that they had a syllabus for the learning of the outfield players but not for the goalkeepers, even though I wasn’t the first goalkeeper coach on their books. Thereby my lads didn’t have a benchmark of comparison so how could they be evaluated? I created one within my first week and it has developed into a useful reference tool, certainly at assessment time when disgruntled parents think that their boy is the best thing since Petr Cech and I can the run through the pointers by which the standard is set and the parents can then see my way of thinking. Assessments as a Goalkeeper Coach are a horrible thing because opinions are just that and some outfield coaches like the quiet life and sit on the fence that much I’m sure that they get creosote on their backsides! It usually turns out that our assessments differ from the team managers because we are studying the technicalities in a close proximity training session where as he thinks “Oh good he’s saved that one” and it doesn’t matter how he saves during a game, as long as he saves it!

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