T o Meyer & Meyer Premium — n Become The BesT in soccer y E At Meyer & Meyer we make no compromises to n Tony enGlund g is an wiTh meyer & meyer! lu present the best in sports content. Go for Gold! n d NSCAA Master Coach and the in- I J o augural Jeff Tipping Award recip- h n P ient. He is the Assistant Director a s c of Coaching and Technical Director a r e In Soccer Goalkeeper Training the authors explain and show through detailed photos and lla at Sporting St. Croix Soccer Club in Minneapolis, MN. Tony is author coaching points the physical and technical skills required for novice goalkeepers to improve of ten books on soccer coaching, their current level with easy to follow progressions. Another topic is how to make decisions 6 1/2” x 9 1/4” including Style and Domination: A in tactical situations on the soccer field, for example using communication as a tool for or- S o 344 p., paperback, in color Tactical Analysis of FC Barcelona. c ganizing the field player of one’s team. The authors also delve into the more advanced and c 199 illustrations scientific areas of periodization and mental preparation used by the most accomplished E r John pascarella ISBN: 978-1-78255-081-5 goalkeepers in Major League Soccer and the US National Team to achieve ultimate success G o at the highest levels of the game. Hereby, some psychological aspects covered by the book played professionally before he began $ 22.95 US/£ 14.95 a are the relationship between goalkeepers and their coaches and giving feedback. Also, l coaching. He worked as Olympic k readers will find a training guide which is divided into exercises by various themes. Whether e development program coach before e you are an aspiring young goalkeeper or a more advanced collegiate player, regardless of p Tony Englund I John Pascarella becoming the head coach and e the level of goalkeeper you currently coach, Soccer Goalkeeper Training will have some- r technical director of the Northern T thing to help bring out the best in you and your most important player. r SoccEr Virginia Royals of the USL’s Premier a Development League. John was i n i Sporting Kansas City’s goalkeep- n G Goalkeeper er and fitness coach before he 6 1/2” x 9 1/4” became assistant coach. 448 p., paperback, in color $ 29.95 US 573 photos, 83 illus., 57 charts ISBN 978-1-78255-107-2 TraininG ISBN: 978-1-78255-090-7 $ 34.95 US/£ 23.95 The comprehensive Guide www.m-m-sports.com Soccer Goalkeeper Training For Beth and Lisa The contents of this book were carefully researched. However, all information is supplied without liability. Neither the author nor the publisher will be liable for possible disadvantages or damages resulting from this book. Tony Englund I John Pascarella SoCCEr GoaLkeeper TraininG The Comprehensive Guide Meyer & Meyer Sport Soccer Goalkeeper TraininG British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Soccer Goalkeeper Training Maidenhead: Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd., 2017 ISBN: 978-1-78255-774-6 All rights reserved, especially the right to copy and distribute, including the translation rights. No part of this work may be reproduced—including by photocopy, microfilm or any other means— processed, stored electronically, copied or distributed in any form whatsoever without the written permission of the publisher. © 2017 by Meyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd. Aachen, Auckland, Beirut, Cairo, Cape Town, Dubai, Hägendorf, Hong Kong, Indianapolis, Manila, New Delhi, Singapore, Sydney, Tehran, Vienna Member of the World Sport Publishers’ Association (WSPA) ISBN: 978-1-78255-774-6 Email: [email protected] www.m-m-sports.com Contents ConTenTs ACknowlEdGmEnTS .................................................................................................................6 ForEword by dAryl ShorE ..................................................................................................11 InTroduCTIon ..........................................................................................................................14 ChAPTEr 1 buIldInG bloCkS: TEChnIquE ...........................................................................37 ChAPTEr 2 GETTInG ThErE: GoAlkEEPEr FITnESS ..............................................................81 ChAPTEr 3 dECISIon mAkInG: TACTICAl SITuATIonS .......................................................143 ChAPTEr 4 GoAlkEEPInG InSIdE-ouT: PSyCholoGICAl PrEPArATIon ..........................171 ChAPTEr 5 ThE TrAInInG GuIdE: ExErCISES by ThEmE ....................................................193 ConCluSIon ...........................................................................................................................288 APPEndIx A GoAlkEEPEr ProGrESS rEPorT Form ..........................................................290 APPEndIx b GoAlkEEPEr mATCh PErFormAnCE FEEdbACk Form ................................291 SourCES And rECommEndEd rEAdInG .............................................................................292 CrEdITS ...................................................................................................................................295 5 Soccer Goalkeeper TraininG aCknowLedGmenTs Tony EnGlund In 2015, I enrolled in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America’s Master Coach Certificate program. This was an outstanding program, featuring the opportunity to network with and learn from elite coaches from around the world. The greatest take- away for me, both professionally and personally, was the opportunity to meet and work with John Pascarella of Major League Soccer’s Sporting Kansas City. Coach Pascarella is a coach’s coach: bright, charismatic, visionary, thoughtful, inquisitive and dynamic. Through the NSCAA’s program design and Coach Pascarella’s remarkable generosity, I have had the opportunity to observe many first-team training sessions and matches, enjoyed tremendous access to the first-team and academy staff and, most critically, a chance to learn much more about the art and science of goalkeeper coaching through many lengthy conversations with John. He is a valued colleague, mentor and friend, and I will always be thankful to him for undertaking this project with me in spite of his busy schedule. Jeff Cassar and Daryl Shore of Major League Soccer’s Real Salt Lake graciously agreed to write the foreword to the book and I am thankful for their contributions. Mateus Manoel, the outstanding Head Fitness Coach at Sporting Kansas City, and Patrick Mannix of his staff, as well as Josh McAllister of Swope Park Rangers added to and reviewed the fitness- related information in the book, and their assistance is gratefully acknowledged. Ian Barker at the NSCAA encouraged me to register for the Master Coach course, steered me away from several other project ideas and assigned John Pascarella as my course mentor, and I am very appreciative of his guidance in the course and his leadership of the NSCAA’s coaching education in general. Kristina Oltrogge at Meyer & Meyer has been a consummate professional in working with John and me throughout the writing process, and we appreciate her patience and diligence. Thanks to Manuel Morschel as well for his willingness to publish our work. 6 Acknowledgments Nathan Klonecki and my colleagues at Sporting St. Croix Academy and Soccer Club in St. Paul have supported this project from its inception, and I am indebted to Nathan and the goalkeeper coaching staff for their feedback and the ideas that have been incorporated into the book. Payton Spencer, Oscar Mulvaney, Lauren Thormodsgard and my stepdaughter Tess Wilder gave considerable time to appear in the photos for the book. They are outstanding people and goalkeepers, and I am thankful for their help. Karen McCullough gave permission to use her photos in the book. Thank you, Karen. Tony and Carole Englund, my parents, continue to be life’s best coaches, and their influence is paramount in my coaching and life. Thank you both, as always. My wife Beth has been a constant source of support and inspiration during the writing of the manuscript. From endless trips and hotel stays across the country with my teams to the late-night clattering of my keyboard, she has cheerfully adopted the soccer life. My love and thanks to her for making the journey so much more meaningful and enjoyable. 7 Soccer Goalkeeper TraininG John PASCArEllA In finishing this book (and our season coming to a premature end), I’m finally able to give some prolonged thought to how much help I’ve had and sacrificed the most while I was writing this book were my wife Lisa and my four children, Kara, Cassie, John-Patrick and Jordan. During my time as a player, coach, presenter or author, Lisa always provides the support and guidance needed, especially when things aren’t turning out the way I had hoped. She always gives me perspective and makes me a better version of myself than I could hope to be on my own. Each of my children have qualities that make me proud and during the writing of this book I’ve found myself wishing I had a little more of those qualities that they possess in spades. Whenever I was fighting against time and feeling tired and sorry for myself, I’d think of Kara’s work ethic. Although a senior in high school, she plays club soccer and has a minimum of two jobs at any one time, sometimes leaving at 5:00 in the morning to start her first one…on Saturday morning, no less. What high school kid does that?! She always likes to say that I love her the most out of all my children—any parent would tell you that you love them all equally and for different reasons—but I’d like to say here, for the record, that I’ve loved her the longest! Cassie is our perfectionist. At times, when I was writing and frustrated with the process of trying to get my thoughts onto paper I would often do the bare minimum and think it was good enough. Eventually, my thoughts would turn to her and the way she is constantly revising and tweaking her projects and homework, striving to get it done perfectly, which would then cause me to come back to my writing and try to make it better and more worthwhile to the reader. John-Patrick is my only son and plays for our U14 academy team at Sporting KC. Whenever I think I’m becoming a better coach I try explaining something related to the game to him and get the same look my dogs give me when they hear something strange and tilt their heads to the side. That’s when I know I need to reconsider how to get my point across. On those occasions, he never ceases to amaze me by eventually grasping the concept and then repeating it back to me in much simpler terms and language. That quality has been especially helpful to me during this project. 8 Acknowledgments Jordan, my youngest, is the most energetic and brutally honest kid you’ll meet. That combination always keeps me in check when my motivation to write waivers or the quality of my writing is poor. She is also the one that enjoys hugging the most. Often, I’d sit at the table and start writing only to get up 15 minutes later frustrated that I couldn’t get down on paper what was in my head. Jordy would ask, “Are you done already, Dad?” Invariably I’d say to her in various ways, I’m not enjoying this and really, not very good at it. She’d look at me in that cute and conniving little way that all youngest siblings do and say “Do you want to snuggle on the couch?” I didn’t need another excuse to walk away from the writing. Eventually, while sitting with her, she would repeat to me something along the lines of “Dad, you always tell me when I get frustrated just to stick with it” or “Dad, you always say ‘action comes before motivation,’ so just start writing again and you’ll get motivated as you go…right?” Suffice it to say, this book would never have been finished if it weren’t for my wife and kids! For the past eight seasons, I’ve been blessed to work for the most forward thinking (and one of the most successful) clubs in Major League Soccer. I want to thank our manager Peter Vermes for the opportunity to work with him and for the trust he has in me to allow me to coach in a way that I see fit, allowing me to become a better coach along the way. It takes a very secure head coach to allow you to work with true freedom, and he has given me all the freedom I could have asked for in implementing my ideas. Many of the training activities in this book have been tweaked and improved from my previous work because he has created the environment and allowed me the freedom to experiment and try to find the best formula for each of our goalkeepers. I’ve also been spoiled to work with three tremendous conditioning coaches at Sporting Kansas City. Over the last few years I’ve relied on Mateus Manoel, Patrick Mannix and Josh McAllister to create functional training exercises and activities that mask the fitness component while bringing about the technical and tactical aspects we are trying to improve. Over time they’ve helped me become a better and more efficient coach as well as contributing greatly to the areas of physiology, warm-up, cool-down and nutrition in this book. There are so many good people working and volunteering their time for the NSCAA. Their conventions, coaching courses and various forums have given me an outlet to share 9