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In 65 Goalkeeper Training Exercises, goalkeeping coach and educator, Andy Elleray, offers fellow football coaches a way of training that takes keepers from the confines of the goal or penalty area, into new, challenging, and fulfilling settings. Games-based goalkeeper training is an alternative to the traditional goalkeeping curriculum and combines physical, psychological, technical, tactical and social skills in small situations that keepers will face in matches. These include 1v1s, communicating with the defence, decision making, shot stopping, and more.

Games-based training is about using games and activities drawn from football, selected sports, physical education, sports science, and other spheres, to help progress keepers with the skills they will really need in competitive match situations. Aimed at readers who coach goalkeepers at all levels, from junior level to elite standard, the games can be conducted within a variety of playing environments including, in many cases, indoors.

Goalkeepers will be working on areas of their game relevant to their position without them even knowing it because they will be made to think quickly and do what comes naturally to them. They will be learning to cope with new and challenging situations in these games and often how to work as a team to win points or solve a problem.

Whilst standard technical drills still have a central role to play in goalkeeper development, games-based development aims to offer an alternative to traditional sessions. Much of games-based goalkeeper training is designed for coaches who have a large group of goalkeepers to work with. With large numbers, it is very hard to do small technical practices in goals, because of space constraints and having so many goalkeepers not working.

65 Goalkeeper Training Exercises is a must-have addition to every coach's bookshelf.

Note: This book utilises some selectively curated content from Andy Elleray's acclaimed book Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football: A practical perspective on the most unique position in sport. If you have already invested in the Scientific Approaches book, please do not purchase this title.

"A story about how a young girl discovers a love for football

and is set on a path to becoming a star. Standing in her way is

a mixture of obstacles including prejudice, opportunities and

adversity."

LILY GREEN is set on the unlikeliest of paths due to the fact

football is relatively non-existent in her current life. The

challenges she faces for acceptance are testing and the chances

to prove herself take her on a roller-coaster of a journey. With

the help of a few close friends, Lily starts to realise her talents,

and this gives her the courage and ambition to express herself.

The story begins in the summer of 2013 around the sleepy

Norfolk seaside and is narrated from the year 2021 when

things are very different for women''s football. Lily''s journey

encapsulates the struggles a young female has breaking into

the world of football ... can she achieve her goal of fulfilling

her talent and becoming a star?

*Andy Elleray was born and grew up in London. He moved to the

rural town of Worcester to attend university and hasn''t looked

back since. Growing up, Andy was fascinated with football.

Knowing he wanted to do more than play, he studied sports

coaching and has since worked with some of the best male and

female teams in the UK, as well as international teams. Andy is

a best-selling author and has produced nine non-fiction books

on the subject of football coaching and youth development

through the publishing company Bennion Kearny. Having

worked with young footballers for well over a decade, his first

fiction book combines the excitement and real-life issues faced

in the game.

After a whirlwind year of discovering and

developing a love for football, Lily Green embarks

on new football challenges with her close friends.

In the second book of her journey, Lily moves into

Year 8 at school and finds a more competitive side to

playing the sport. She is welcomed into a local club

called Northfield Juniors, where she takes centre

stage. All the while, she is still playing a starring role

for the St. Joseph''s school team.

Her game is taken to a new level by the situations

she finds herself in ... However, everything isn''t plain

sailing for Lily as she has to overcome some different

obstacles that are put in her way.

A whole new footballing world is opened up to

her throughout the upcoming season, but she''ll have

to dream big and believe in herself if she wants to get

to the top ...

Andy Elleray2

Andy Elleray is the author of ''Lily''s Goal: Finding

Football,'' the first book in the Lily''s Goal series. He

is also the writer of the best-selling football book

collection, ''Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in

Football,'' which takes the form of eight books.

Away from writing, Andy Elleray is a well-

renowned football coach, working with some of the

biggest teams in England, as well as coaching at the

youth international level.

Visit his website - andyelleray.com - for more

information on his work.

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.