Coaching Goalkeepers
Winning skills and strategies that any coach and parent can learn
The San Andreas Youth Soccer Organization (SAYSO, a club in the Redwood Junior Soccer League) is sponsoring a course for coaches, assistant coaches, and parents who want to learn how to train their goalkeepers effectively.
DESCRIPTION: Approximately 3 hours of classroom training and 3 hours of field training. Following lunch, under the guidance of the SAYSO goalkeeper trainers, participants will practice their new coaching skills on one or two team players, assistants, or team parents who may join them after lunch.
IN THE CLASSROOM SESSION, YOU WILL LEARN: Goalkeeper mentality and psychology...how to choose goalkeepers...goalkeeper equipment secrets....how to walk, talk, and dress like a goalkeeper ...how to talk like a goalkeeper coach...some goalkeeper history...why goalkeeping isn't soccer...why everything you thought about training goalkeepers is probably wrong. You will also learn how to scare, demoralize, and discourage goalkeepers and their parents...and, how to end up with no goalkeepers on your team at all.
IN THE FIELD SESSION, YOU WILL LEARN: Goalkeeper stretches and warm-up routines. Basic goalkeeping skills: catching, punching, distribution, field positioning, diving, handling breakaways, verbal control of the field. You'll learn 3 main coaching points for each skill. You will learn how to simply demonstrate these skills right the first time. You'll learn ...the one way to do everything correctly...the most common mistakes made by goalkeepers in practice...You'll learn what to watch for during games, and how to plan your next goalkeeper practice sessions.
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COST: $45 per coach (There is no charge for youth trainees or parents joining coaches Sunday afternoon.) Make checks payable to “SAYSO.”
TO ENROLL: Space is limited to 30 coaches. Reserve by sending your name, contact information (including email address), $45 check, and signed liability release (below) to: San Andreas Youth Soccer Organization, 1250 Fifth Avenue, Suite 123, Belmont, CA 94002. You will receive a confirmation via email or mail.
PREREQUISITES: The SAYSO Goalkeeper coaching course does not require prior soccer or goalkeeping coaching or playing experience. The course is perfect for a team parent (particularly the goalkeeper's parent). Coaches will have opportunities to experience and try all techniques, but mastery of aerial gymnastic movements is not expected.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Each participant should bring shinguards and long-sleeve
shirt or goalkeeper jersey. The following equipment is recommended:
goalkeeper gloves, compression shorts,
and diving pants or sweat pants.
DIRECTIONS to Belmont Sports Complex: From Bayshore (Highway 101), take the Ralston Avenue (Marine World Parkway) exit. Go east (towards the bay) on Ralston/MarineWorld Parkway. Turn left at the first signal (Oracle Parkway). Turn left at the first stop sign (Shoreway Road/Island Parkway). Follow the snaking road around and north. The Belmont Sports Complex is on your left.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call the SAYSO office at (650) 593-5161 or email info@sayso.org.
I, (printed name) ___________________________ willingly participate in the San Andreas Youth Soccer Organization’s goalkeeper coaching course. I will participate in the course using the required and recommended proper protective equipment. Should I participate in the clinic without the required and recommended proper protective equipment, I will do so at my own risk. I acknowledge that soccer activities are of a strenuous physical nature and pose some inherent risk of injury. I waive all claims of liability against SAYSO, the clinic staff, and other participants in the clinic.
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_________________________ Date: ________________
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