Goalkeeping-bok

7.4.1
The goalkeeper and coordination
In everyday language, if a goalkeeper has good coordination
he knows how to:
• move
– the lower body must work in harmony with the upper
body,
– the goalkeeper must be able to adapt to all types of
pitch,
• not be afraid of the ball and handle it with ease,
• dive and quickly regain position,
• read the trajectory of the ball,
• dive equally well to both sides,
• use both feet,
• jump from the left leg equally as well as from the right
leg,
• react to team-mates’ movements by supplying them
with an accurate ball.
There are many more examples but clearly all these
descriptions relate to the various aspects of coordination
skills.
There are aspects of coordination in all the exercises used on
the pitch.
These can be exercises:
• with or without a ball,
• with or without equipment.
Coordination and proprioception exercises are used:
• during the warm-up in the form of:
– limbering up using a ball,
– skipping with a rope,
– gymnastics (see below)
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– circuits using various items of equipment (hoops,
ladders, etc.),
– running practice (heel fl icks, high knees, etc.),
• in the main part of the session by:
– associating the exercises described above with the
goalkeeper’s technical manoeuvres in goal.
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The repetition method is the most appropriate for exercises
that end with a technical manoeuvre in goal. Each exercise
comprises 4-6 repetitions with maximum quality of
execution (in terms of speed and jumping). A full recovery is
allowed. Working with three goalkeepers, the completions
by the other two goalkeepers are suffi cient for the recovery
of the fi rst. This type of exercise is perfectly suited to training
amateurs and young players when there are an insuffi cient
number of training sessions, as a way of establishing a
preparation programme for the goalkeeper. Work should
not be conducted on coordination skills if the goalkeeper
is tired, as the control processes cannot be improved in an
optimal manner. In general, goalkeepers do not correctly
perform gymnastic manoeuvres such as rolls, cartwheels and
balancing, let alone more complicated exercises. Mastering
these manoeuvres can be benefi cial for orientation in space/
time and can assist the goalkeeper in situations where
he is sliding, falling, barged by an opponent or hindered
by a team-mate. Simple exercises on the pitch or more
complicated exercises in the gym using large mats can
allow this defi ciency to be addressed and these skills to be
improved.