Goalkeeper Secrets

Putting in the extra work outside of your regular training sessions is crucial to maximizing your potential.  Even 10 minutes a day of focused and purposeful training can help you immensely.  If you spread that 10 minutes over 30 days that's 300 minutes or 5 hours of extra work you put in! 


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Tryouts can be one of the most high pressure situations that we face as young athletes and goalkeepers.  You are not alone in feeling overwhelmed and nervous before a tryout.  However, there are ways to help you succeed at a tryout which include visualization exercises, physically preparing, confidence, and self-talk.  



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Taking the time to reflect on past performances in games and trainings will help you to learn from mistakes as well as imprint all of the good decisions you made into your mind.  Utilizing your car ride home after a game to reflect on everything that just happened will help you unpack the game and understand why you made certain decisions.  Even better, if you have the ability to film your games this will be the best way for you to study yourself and learn.


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Training is your time to learn and develop skills so that you can apply them in the game.  By going into each training session with the mindset of you're going to learn something new and take advantage of your time there, you are setting yourself up for success and instilling professional work ethic.  Its so important to watch other goalkeepers in training and learn from them!




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There's a drastic difference between setting high standards and high expectations for yourself as a goalkeeper.  Setting high standards is focused on the aspects of the game that are in your control like your technique, fitness and communication while high expectations is focused on things like getting a shutout every game or never losing.  High expectations sets you up for disappointment while high standards is focused on being your best self.


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Being in control of your emotions at all times in incredibly difficult.  Also, your goal isn't to rid yourself of emotion, you're still human!  You will feel emotions such as fear, anger and frustration that will try to take you out of your game, but how you respond to those emotions will determine if they control you.  Visualizing these emotions before competition will help you prepare and be ready for when they come.  Letting the emotions come in and then immediately let them leave will help you to remain in flow and focused.  




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How you talk to yourself before, during and after competition will have a major impact on how you perform.  Utilizing positive self talk will help you remain calm and confident, even after mistakes as well as help you to remain in "flow".  Try to catch yourself anytime the voice inside your head says anything negative about you.  Don't let that voice get too loud and take over, regain control by being positive and looking forward.



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Becoming a mindful goalkeeper will help you to avoid frustration, be more aware of yourself and your surroundings as well as help to you be in flow more often.  To be more mindful, you must put concentrated effort into being more self aware and figuring out how and why certain things affect you.  

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In order to master anything subject or skill, you must put in 10,000 hours of deliberate training.  This may seem impossible, but with consistent effort you can absolutely achieve mastery of being a goalkeeper.  Keep in mind that mental practice counts too! By using visualization and other mental exercises you are absolutely adding to the 10,000 hours towards mastery.



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Being a goalkeeper is extremely difficult with all of the pressure of keeping the ball out of the net, but then adding in the pressure of keeping your starting spot is a lot.  However, being a supportive teammate and helping your fellow goalkeepers get better and succeed you are creating an environment for growth for everyone. 




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