The Goalkeeping Coach offers a worldwide goalkeeping consultancy service. With the company’s experience working at all levels of soccer, we are able to offer a tailored consultancy service for you! 

‘His coaching of the club’s senior goalkeepers and his work with youngsters starting out in the game means that he has demonstrated that he has the expertise to get the very best out of players at all levels’.                                                                    

Sir Bobby Robson on Simon Smith – Co-Founder and Director of Coaching The Goalkeeping Coach  

We provide world class specialized goalkeeper coaching for male and female goalkeepers and coaches of all ages and skill levels. We can provide this through clinics, seminars and camps in addition to one-on-one and group coaching. We achieve this level of expertise with the skills of highly trained and experienced coaches and goalkeepers from around the world. This enables the goalkeeper and coach to gain knowledge of the game from an international perspective. All skills and techniques of goalkeeping are taught with a tailored program to meet the needs and skill level of each individual goalkeeper and coach. A positive coaching atmosphere is utilized to achieve these goals. To supplement our programs, The Goalkeeping Coach also offers a series of DVD's and practice books for both goalkeepers and coaches.   

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Youth Associations/Clubs
The Goalkeeping Coach can provide structured goalkeeping programs dealing with the main principles of goalkeeping from handling and diving to dealing with the back pass. We can also assist the ‘outfield’ coach with defending at set plays, defensive organisation and playing out from the defence.


Team Coaching
The Goalkeeping Coach has worked at senior international and professional level with the Canadian men’s national soccer team and the LA Galaxy of MLS, helping professional goalkeepers by fine tuning their technical work and their games play; which at that level can make the difference between winning and losing. The attention to detail by The Goalkeeping Coach and teaching skills will without doubt help the goalkeeper not only with their technique but also with their self confidence –building and establishing confidence in their goalkeeping ability through correct practice, reinforcement and feedback. As well as practical coaching sessions we can also provide feedback on a goalkeepers match performance, show them pre-match warm up routines and give tactical feedback through observation and match analysis aimed at helping improve goalkeeping and team performance.

• Coaching for Coaches
• The Goalkeeping Coach also delivers specialist goalkeeping coaching courses for coaches.  We have already worked as a consultant to the Icelandic F.A., which consisted of a two day course for coaches, this included, on and off field sessions; An interactive classroom based seminar
• DVD analysis
• Coaching Theory
• Developing a program Goalkeeping psychology
• The role of the goalkeeping coach
• Working with goalkeepers – expectations and needs.
• Practical coaching sessions covering the principles of goalkeeping and goalkeeping practices.  
• One-on-One Coaching
• The Goalkeeping Coach also offers one-on-one coaching with goalkeepers of all ages and abilities.  These sessions consist of taking the goalkeeper through a series of drills and practices looking at; handling, footwork, diving, shot stopping, dealing with crosses and kicking. Through out the sessions the goalkeeper will receive instruction and feedback. The session will be filmed and the goalkeeper will receive a copy of the DVD and a written report.  
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  Goalkeeping Development Programmes
• As part of developing goalkeeping in Canada, The Goalkeeping Coach is writing coaching and development programmes for the Canadian Soccer Association, British Columbia Soccer Association and the North Shore Player Development Programme in Vancouver.  

Resource Material
To supplement this work, The Goalkeeping Coach has produced its own resource material, an instructional manual Goalkeeping for Soccer-Techniques, Skills and Practices, Goalkeeping Practices a book containing over 100 goalkeeping drills and practices and produced DVD’s Keepers Classroom-Techniques and Skills and A Degree of Goalkeeping-Techniques, Skills and Practices. In the world of goalkeeping it doesn't get much better than that!


Cricket
The Goalkeeping Coach has also taken its coaching and teaching skills into the world of cricket and worked one to one with two England wicketkeepers – James Foster and Geraint Jones. Simon Smith of The Goalkeeping Coach has worked for Kent County Cricket Club as a consultant, working on improving fielder’s footwork, catching and diving techniques. He has also tutored on the ECB level 4 Wicket Keeping Module for the past three years, conducting practical sessions on footwork, catching and diving and seminars on coaching theory, talent identification and the role of the specialist coach.


Secondment
From March 2007, through The Goalkeeping Coach Consultancy Service, Simon is looking to disseminate the information gained through his year long research programme. Through the DTI Global Watch Secondment Scheme, Simon has been involved in a year long secondment funded by the DTI spending time in Canada and the UK, investigating the ‘Biomechanics of Goalkeeping’ in order to write a guide of goalkeeping techniques based on scientific research. Simon feels this research will help to take goalkeepers to the next level of performance and also have a cross over to other sports such as cricket wicket keeping and fielding and baseball fielding to name but two.

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