Andy Elleray - 50 More Goalkeeper Training Exercises: Goalkeeping Practices For Soccer Coaching At Any Level

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Andy Elleray

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An imprint of Bennion Kearny

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Published in 2018 by Oakamoor Publishing, an imprint of Bennion Kearny Limited.

ISBN: 978-1-910773-58-1

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Andy Elleray has been working in the goalkeeping world since the age of 14 and playing in goal since the age of seven. Over the years, his goalkeeping passion has seen him represent Englands Blind Football team playing as the sighted goalkeeper as well as working at such clubs as Liverpool and Chelsea in a goalkeeping capacity. He has studied coaching and performance analysis for many years and has a Masters degree in Sports Coaching along with high level FA and UEFA qualifications.

Andy released his first book Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football in March 2013 and it aimed to invoke innovative thinking behind the position and investigate areas such as psychology, biomechanics, performance analysis and practice strictures amongst others. With selected exercises taken from his first book, 65 Goalkeeper Training Exercises was published in 2017 and promotes different games within a goalkeeping environment in a quick and easy format.

Over the past five years, Andy has been working in Womens football as Head of Goalkeeping Development at Birmingham City Ladies alongside the womens international age group teams and the regional excellence pathway while also holding a position as academy goalkeeping coach at the boys side of the club.

The author royalties from this book will go to Cancer Research.

Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom formed, in 2002, by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. Its aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. As the world's largest independent cancer research charity, it conducts research into the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of the disease.

Over recent months, Ive experienced the effects of cancer first-hand as our first team goalkeeper at Birmingham City Ladies was diagnosed, treated, and is now undergoing rehabilitation.

The resolve and strength she has shown through this process has been inspiring and she is an amazing role model not just for young girls in football but for cancer sufferers and people supporting cancer sufferers everywhere.

Hopefully the royalties from this book will go a small way towards helping the charity to continue researching and supporting families going through their own individual battles.

Andy

Nearly five years on from my first book, the position of the goalkeeper has continued to grow into a fundamentally important position within a football team. There are more young players taking up the position than ever before, more goalkeeping schools than ever before, and much more match analysis on television than ever before.

The general consensus throughout the football world is that the goalkeeper is now seen as the 11th player and not just an isolated position.

The overall aim of the book is to supply the coach or the player with a selection of practices and exercises they can use at any time. The exercises can be browsed through when designing sessions, or even deployed straight onto the training pitch.

I must stress, at this point, that the aim of these practices is not to tell you how to develop the goalkeepers youre working with. Every club whether it is professional or amateur, youth academy or grassroots, England or Spain, approaches the position differently; ultimately, the book provides an opportunity to share practices that have been used at all levels of the sport in order for goalkeepers to develop the tools required to excel.

Each club/environment will have their own philosophy and fundamental ways of working whilst developing goalkeepers. The practices in this book will set the environment to work on different goalkeeping attributes whilst providing suggestions on areas that can be focussed upon within each practice.

The practices can be adapted as the reader sees fit in terms of dimensions, ball positioning, and the number of players/servers. Within the practices there will be a few key elements that look to build some realistic scenarios and situations where possible these are as follows:

• Using a moving ball for shot-stopping practices.

• Varied shot positioning to create different angles and problems to solve this includes working both sides of the goal when the diagram shows a specific side.

• If a ball is secured, having distribution option for the GK (sometimes mentioned in the practice descriptions).

• Rebounders to act as strikers to pounce upon loose balls.

• Vision blockers (human or mannequin) to create a sense of a crowded penalty box or situations where players are looking to close down the ball.

• Usually, one GK is shown in some practices there can be two rotating for example.

• GKs are used as servers in the practices to work on distribution, passing range and general footwork (including 1st touch).

• Using the coach as an extra server.

• Servers/strikers in practices can take more than one role (shown with two separate numbers).

Here are practice factors that, as a coach, you should consider when conducting practices or designing a training session:

The age and development status of each individual GK.

The angles, distances and dimensions of the practices what is relevant for your GKs?

The repetitions and sets within each practice again, think about what is appropriate for the environment. Within this, factor in rest rimes at RPE (Rate of Perceived Exertion) exercise intensity level analysis.

Coach observation where possible, be in a position to analyse the GKs rather than being directly involved in the session (not always possible of course); think about using video analysis see my first book Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football for more details.