Goalkeeping
Goalkeeper Handling Station: Blind Serve
Build clean, secure handling
Goalkeeping
Goalkeeper Handling Station: Blind Serve is a 14-minute goalkeeping drill for 1-6 players, suitable for Under 10 to Adults at beginner, intermediate, advanced level. You need balls, cones, full goals. Below you will find the objective, the set-up, how to run it, coaching points, common mistakes, progressions, regressions and variations.
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Technical Practice
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Small Group
Youth Friendly
Adult Suitable
Goals Needed
Reaction Saves
Duration
14 min
Players
1-6
Pitch size
Penalty area
Ability levels
Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced
Pitch diagram
Goalkeeper Handling Station: Blind Serve — Goalkeeping set-up — serve, save, reset · Penalty area
Step 1 of 5Server feeds low, mid and high balls in sequence.
- 1. Server feeds low, mid and high balls in sequence.
- 2. Keeper secures every ball into the chest.
- 3. Sets of ten with rest between.
- 4. The keeper starts facing away or with a screen blocking sight of the strike.
- 5. Rotation: Rotate as servers.
- Cones mark the area
- Full goal
- GK = goalkeeper
- C = coach serving, S = second server
- Ball
- Cones mark the keeper's starting positions
- Dotted arrow = rotation between repetitions
- Keeper distributes back to the server
- Solid arrow = pass, thick = shot, dashed = run / dribble
Objectives
- -Build clean, secure handling
- -Work low, mid and high catches
- -Develop confidence with the hands
Setup
- 1Keeper in goal with cones marking the working line.
- 2Server eight yards away with a supply of balls.
- 3Spare keepers rotate as servers.
Coaching instructions
- 1Server feeds low, mid and high balls in sequence.
- 2Keeper secures every ball into the chest.
- 3Sets of ten with rest between.
- 4The keeper starts facing away or with a screen blocking sight of the strike.
Coaching points
- -Hands behind the ball in a W shape
- -Get the body behind the line of the ball
- -Secure the ball before moving
- -Find the ball fast and get the eyes level
- -Trust the hands on the reaction save
Common mistakes
- -Hands to the side of the ball
- -Catching with straight arms
- -Not getting the body behind it