Women’s football has grown exponentially over the last few years. I’m not just talking about the number of people who recently showed up or watched the women’s World Cup. That was certainly significant, especially given the fact that the game times weren’t ideal for us in the Western Hemisphere. Despite the fact that many countries …
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A lot of the tips and ideas that I talk about on this page require a long-term training period that’s going to see you get better. As is the case with anything in life, the more you do it, the better you can get at it. Now, I know that when you’ve had a bad …
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Coaches in all sports preach stretching is a necessity to be able to play the right way. Stretching, though, is something that usually, at a young age, you don’t see the value of. That leads to a lot of kids not doing things the right way. This can be the first thing about stretching that …
We’ll all ask ourselves this question at some point in our careers. The reality is that there are moments when it’s going to be worth it. There are other situations where it’s just not going to make a lot of sense. I want to go over each situation in this article while also talking about …
I was looking through some of the goalkeeper gloves available on Amazon for the next review when I saw a couple of options that seemed odd to me. Essentially, they were Adidas gloves at ridiculously low prices. This happened a couple of times, and at first, I didn’t think much of it. Then I realized …
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There are 3 guys coming at you on a breakaway, what’s your first instinct? For a lot of regular people the first thing that they would think about doing is running straight at them. Others would want to fall back towards the net. In most cases you’ll probably be better off choosing a bit of …
Gianluigi Donaruma is perhaps one of the few inverse scenarios of goalkeepers that peaked in their youth and now going into what should be their prime years are kind of struggling. For the most part, goalkeepers have a career trajectory similar to the one Keylor Navas had. He started out playing in his native country …
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This is one of the topics that all goalkeepers at all levels are going to want to know about. Obviously, recovery times are much quicker when you’re younger. When you’re in your teens most of the issues that you’re going to have are going to go away on their own if you just leave them …
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Padded shorts were very much a staple of 90s football. I can still picture Gianluigi Buffon in his Parma jersey at the time with black padded shorts. Even when he got to Juventus in the early 2000s they were still wearing padded jerseys and shorts. These days we could argue that padded shorts as part …
This is probably something that not a lot of goalkeeper parents or goalkeepers who started out as adults want to hear. Playing goalkeeper already comes with a set of added costs when compared to the other positions on the field. Yes, I’m going to talk about one more expense that makes a ton of sense …
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