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Long goal kick under pressure

Keep the long-kick mechanics with a presser closing, striking to a useful zone and not just far — reinforces the goal kick under pressure, a demanding and decisive topic.

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Load

minutes
10
Intensity
Medium
Sets and reps
2 × 6

Microcycle days it fits

MD-3, MD-2

Each bar’s height is that day’s dive ceiling.

Setup

Goalkeepers
1
server
0
outfield player
2

Space: 30 × 45 m

Equipment: Balls, Full goal, Markers

The coach serves and manages the breaks.

1 steps

A goal kick with an opponent pressing the short outlet, forcing a considered long ball. The goalkeeper strikes to a gaining zone, not aimlessly.

Exercise sequence

Coaching points

  • Pressure must not wreck the mechanics: even hurried, the plant foot stays beside the ball and the contact is clean.
  • Pick the zone before striking — the long kick is a possession decision, not a surrender.
  • Contact below the ball’s centre for height and distance, the body following the strike.
  • If the press arrives late, prefer the built outlet; long is an option, not an obligation.

Progressions

  1. Tight channel over the striker’s head.
  2. Reduce the time before pressure.

Regressions

  1. Wide zone in midfield.
  2. Remove the pressure.

Sources · 2

  1. StudyBiomechanics of the volley kick by the soccer goalkeeper (2009), in Science and Football VI
  2. BookLeonhard Zeilinger e Franz Gruber, «The Ultimate Guide to Goalkeeper Training: Develop Motor Skills, Technique, Tactics, and Mindset» (Meyer & Meyer Sport, 2025), ISBN 9781782552918