Articles from ZPro Futbol’s Goalkeeper Solutions Camps. We provide tips to coaches, parents and goalkeepers on training, equipment and keeper camps.
Goalkeeper: How to Re-Focus
Most difficult mental skill: How to re-focusRe-focus is the hardest thing to do when it comes to mental skill. But it is even harder to re-focus when you are a goalkeeper in a game where NOTHING is happening or perhaps, lots is happening but you JUST simply can't get in the game.It is very easy [...]
Goalkeeper: The Psychology of the Breakaway
Share on facebook Facebook Share on google Google+ Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Goalkeeper Psychology: Part I Being a goalkeeper is already a very psychological position which includes massive amounts of waiting in the goal with few seconds of excitement & intensity, for some goalkeepers few seconds of terror. However, the most intimidating [...]
Mentally ready to be a goalkeeper?
Share on facebook Facebook Share on google Google+ Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn Over the last several years, I've had the privilege to have trained hundreds of goalkeepers worldwide and I have been able to study and analyze many of these keepers in order to understand their mental preparation. It will take [...]
Goalkeeper tips: Playing with a bad defense
Twitter Instagram Here is the reality of the game... you may be a goalkeeper who always play with the a team that has a "great" defense, played together for a while, close to the same age group and get an average of 1 to 3 shots on goal every game. This is the kind of defense or [...]
Professional goalkeeper training – Zpro Futbol method
Your best game during the worst day of your life. Zpro Futbol methodology is more than technical skills and perfect forms, is life changing journey. We spend hundreds of hours training & analyzing our Professional & amateur goalkeepers around the world to understand their physical, mental and technical aspects. Plus, our personal experiences playing at the [...]
Youth soccer clubs or High school soccer?
The high school soccer vs club soccer has been around for years in the United States and it looks like this topic will never go away. Some people state that high school soccer is “inferior” and amateur youth club soccer is much more advanced. This general comment is both naive and in many cases wrong. With [...]
Goalkeeper mental toughness
Twitter Instagram Today there is a number of goalkeeper programs who spend time doing all kinds of goalkeeping drills to improve their technical aspects but almost nobody covers the most important aspect of a goalkeeper at the youth level which is the MENTAL TOUGHNESS.I live in Denver, Colorado. Here there a number of soccer goalie [...]
Balance Training: simple ways to increase power, agility & reaction
Working on only technical aspects of the goalkeeper & ignoring the physical and mental aspects, it's like a boxer fighting with only ONE hand, it does not work. Today lots of youth club goalkeepers are technically decent but the majority of them are very weak athletes and lack speed & strength to get vertical jumps which are [...]
Goalkeeper: How to deal with distractions
Distractions and loss of focus during games for Goalkeepers will occur. You might catch yourself watching another game on another field, or someone on the sidelines or in the crowd making fun of you, players calling you names, or your mind wondering after a goal for or against you. The worst distraction is when your [...]
Goalkeeper gloves: how to take care of them
Goalkeeper gloves are very expensive and glove companies are taking advantage of parents and goalkeepers all over the country because they know parents will have to buy them sooner or later. Some "big name brands" won't care about how high their prices are as long as you buy it.You can still buy great gloves at decent prices [...]