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Pre-match concentration routine

Consolidate, at low volume and with no new technical demand, the short mental routine between actions the goalkeeper will use in the match — the goal is the reset gesture, not the catch.

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Load

minutes
6
dives/set
3
Sets and reps
1 × 8
Intensity
Low

dives per set, per goalkeeper

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MD

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

Setup

Goalkeepers
1
server
1
outfield player
0

Space: 10 × 10 m

Equipment: Balls, Full goal

The coach serves and manages the breaks.

1 steps

Simple, easy-to-save services, one at a time, with a pause between them. In that pause the goalkeeper always performs the same short routine — breath, gesture, word — before the next service.

Exercise sequence

Coaching points

  • Technical difficulty is deliberately low: what’s being assessed is routine consistency, not the catch.
  • The routine has to fit the real time available between match actions — if it takes longer, it isn’t usable.
  • Repeat the same sequence every time, even when the catch is fumbled, so the routine doesn’t depend on the outcome.
  • End the session with a clean catch and the full routine, so that’s the last memory before the match.

Progressions

  1. Introduce a brief distraction (noise, a comment) before the routine, testing resilience to it.
  2. Reduce the time available between services.

Regressions

  1. Widen the time between services.
  2. Allow a free routine instead of a fixed gesture.

Sources · 2

  1. Book«Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football», Bennion Kearny
  2. BookVaggelis Lappas, «Goalkeeper Training Methodology»