Unleash Your Inner Goalkeeping Pro with These 101 Training Practices by Andy Elleray!

The Ultimate Guide to Enhancing Your Goalkeeper Skills and Techniques

Are you an aspiring goalkeeper looking to take your skills to the next level? Look no further! In this ultimate guide, renowned goalkeeper coach Andy Elleray shares his top 101 training practices to help you become a goalkeeping pro. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned player, these techniques will give you the edge you need to dominate between the sticks.

1. Fundamental Goalkeeping Techniques

Master the core techniques every goalkeeper must excel at, such as positioning, shot-stopping, reflexes, and distribution. Andy Elleray breaks down each skill, providing practical exercises and drills to help you improve your performance.

101 Goalkeeper Training Practices

by Andy Elleray (Kindle Edition)

4.5 out of 5

Language	:	English
File size	:	4044 KB
Text-to-Speech	:	Enabled
Enhanced typesetting	:	Enabled
Word Wise	:	Enabled
Print length	:	232 pages
Lending	:	Enabled
Screen Reader	:	Supported
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2. Agility and Footwork

A goalkeeper's agility and footwork are crucial for making quick saves and controlling the penalty area. Discover the best agility drills and exercises that will enhance your reaction time and ability to cover the goal effectively.

3. Diving and Save Techniques

Learn different diving techniques, including the classic dive, power dive, and low dive, to ensure you can make those spectacular saves when it matters most. Andy Elleray explains the correct body positioning and timing required for each technique.

4. Dealing with Crosses

Crosses can be intimidating, but with Andy Elleray's guidance, you'll develop the confidence to come out and claim those high balls effectively. Explore various drills to improve your positioning, timing, and aerial dominance.

5. One-on-One Situations

Master the art of one-on-one situations, where you're the last line of defense. From narrowing angles to reading the attacker's body language, you'll develop the skills needed to minimize scoring opportunities and emerge victorious in one-on-one battles.

6. Distribution and Goal Kicks

A skilled goalkeeper can contribute significantly to their team's attacking plays. Discover techniques for accurate goal kicks, throwing, and distribution that will help you launch counter-attacks and initiate swift transitions.

7. Communication and Leadership

Being a goalkeeper means being the eyes and voice of your team's defense. Explore the qualities of effective communication and leadership on the pitch and learn how to organize and command your defense confidently.

8. Mental Toughness and Concentration

Goalkeeping requires mental resilience and unwavering concentration. Andy Elleray shares valuable tips on staying focused, coping with pressure, and developing mental toughness to perform at your best when it matters most.

9. Goalkeeping Drills and Training Plans

Andy Elleray provides training plans and sample drills for goalkeepers of all levels. Whether you're looking for individual or team-based exercises, these comprehensive plans will help you structure your training sessions and ensure consistent progress.

10. Goalkeeper Fitness and Conditioning

Goalkeeping demands exceptional physical fitness. Learn about goalkeeper-specific conditioning exercises and routines to enhance your agility, strength, speed, and endurance, ensuring you can perform at your peak throughout the entire match.

11. In-Game Decision-Making

Making split-second decisions can be challenging for goalkeepers. Discover techniques and drills to improve your decision-making skills, including coming off the line, determining when to punch or catch the ball, and assessing attacking threats.

Becoming a remarkable goalkeeper takes dedication, practice, and the right guidance. Take advantage of Andy Elleray's wealth of experience and knowledge in this comprehensive guide, and start your journey to becoming a goalkeeping sensation today!

101 Goalkeeper Training Practices

by Andy Elleray (Kindle Edition)

4.5 out of 5

Language	:	English
File size	:	4044 KB
Text-to-Speech	:	Enabled
Enhanced typesetting	:	Enabled
Word Wise	:	Enabled
Print length	:	232 pages
Lending	:	Enabled
Screen Reader	:	Supported
X-Ray for textbooks	:	Enabled

FREE

In 101 Goalkeeper Training Practices, goalkeeping coach Andy Elleray follows up his previous trilogy of goalkeeping books to provide fellow football coaches and goalkeepers with a wide variety of new practices that cover many aspects of goalkeeping. Practices are broken down into three areas: working with an individual goalkeeper, small groups of goalkeepers training together, and fuller team-based exercises. The overall intention is to provide realistic, varied, relevant, and innovative practices that stimulate the goalkeeper in every element of their game and performance.

The goalkeeper training exercises in the book – illustrated with colour diagrams – focus on five main viewpoints – technical, tactical, psychological, physical, and social/environmental. Each practice is weighted to develop these elements to greater and lesser degrees, and exercises include 1v1 techniques, decision making, shot stopping from different angles/distances, travelling around the goalmouth, re-positioning, cutback scenarios, and more. There are also sections on key coaching observations and how to progress/regress the practices.

All the listed practices are real-world and have been used at a variety of levels within football to enhance goalkeeper development of all ages. They can all be adapted based on the numbers of players and resources available to the coach, while fundamental factors such as time and space allow the coach to be creative with how the exercises are implemented. The variety of practices and exercises will provide goalkeepers at all levels with the opportunity to hone their skills and not just become a brilliant protector of the goal, but also the 11th player on the ball – a prominent member of their team’s strategy and dynamic.

About The Author: Andy Elleray is a goalkeeping coach who also specializes in performance analysis and sports science. His former clubs include Cheltenham Town, Liverpool and Chelsea, working at different levels, and in a variety of roles. He is currently responsible for the goalkeeping development at Birmingham City Women Football Club where he works at all levels of the club with youth international goalkeepers in the female game. Andy also coaches in the boy’s academy at Birmingham City where he works with young goalkeepers in the club’s pre-academy and full academy programmes. He is also involved in different regional and youth international coaching environments. Holding UEFA qualifications, Youth Awards, and a Master’s degree, Andy blends different approaches into his current coaching projects.

Andy is the author of previously published titles, including 65 Goalkeeper Training Exercises, and 50 More Goalkeeper Training Exercises.