For anyone who coaches senior goalkeepers, at any level
Training is where your keeper learns, so it should be demanding and full of decisions. Match day is where they perform, so you prepare them and send them out confident. This course teaches you how to do both.
It covers every part of the job, from planning your sessions to analysing the match. You'll see a UEFA A goalkeeper coach plan real sessions around two matches, each one built from how the next opponent scores.
Taught by goalkeeping coaches and specialists who've worked with Brentford, Stoke City, Red Bull Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Real Valladolid, Cardiff City, Fortuna Düsseldorf, Kilmarnock, San Jose Earthquakes and the Estonian Football Association. What they teach goes straight into your sessions.
Most goalkeeper coaches learn the job a piece at a time: YouTube clips, other coaches' sessions, their own experience in goal. Each piece helps. What's often missing is how the pieces fit together, from the first session to the match.
This course covers all of it, in order. You get drills and sessions from goalkeeping coaches and specialists, each with its reason. So you know why you're doing what you're doing, and you send your keeper out ready. You can explain it to your keeper and the rest of the team, and to other coaches when you need to.
You coach two different jobs, training and match day. This course covers both.
In training, sessions should be complex, because that's where your keeper learns. Before kick-off, you do the opposite: a warm-up built to send your keeper out confident, and a clear job for each situation this opponent is likely to create.
Training is also where decisions are built. Plenty of drills work on the save. This course trains what comes before it too: what your keeper looks at as play develops, where they stand and which action they choose.
You'll see it done. A UEFA A goalkeeper coach walks through real sessions planned around two matches. There's a session for each way the next opponent scores, and crosses worked against opposition and tackle bags because the league is physical. After the match, the coach checks whether the aims of those sessions showed up.
Another module uses GPS data to show keepers do more explosive work in training than in matches. That's why the hardest sessions come well before the match.
You learn it from goalkeeping coaches and specialists who've worked in the professional game, with the drills, the sessions and the reason behind each one.
Anyone who coaches senior goalkeepers, at any level:
You might see your keeper once a week or every day. Either way, the course covers the sessions you run and the match days you're there for.
"Senior Pro Level" describes the course, not your club. Coach mostly young keepers? The Professional Certificate in Goalkeeper Coaching Science (Pro-Youth Level) is built for you.
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It sits alongside your UEFA, FA or federation licence as a professional certificate.
Taught by goalkeeping coaches and specialists from the professional game. The modules come in two environments: training first, then the game. Each is a video lesson with reading references, and they open in order.
You'll learn how the course runs, and how its two environments fit together.
Building your keeper's technique and decisions, planning their training, fuelling it and handling pressure.
You'll learn what the goalkeeper coach's job involves, and why every choice you make should start from your keeper.
You'll learn what a match asks of a keeper, moment by moment, so your training can prepare them for it.
You'll learn how goalkeepers are trained today, and why a drill carries into a match only when your keeper has to read the play in it.
You'll learn how footballers prepare their bodies to move efficiently, through mobility and activation work.
You'll learn how to shape a goalkeeper training philosophy, plan training between two matches, and keep sessions match-like so technique holds up.
Through a case study, you'll learn how a keeper's energy intake and expenditure change across their training, and how to fuel them for it.
You'll learn how to build a goalkeeper training model and structure your keeper's training. You'll also see how the way you design a drill sets how many decisions your keeper makes in it.
You'll learn why a keeper can make the right decision and still fumble it under pressure, and how self-talk and coping routines before and during a match help them recover.
You'll learn how to build technique that holds up in match situations, with sessions that train decisions and technique together.
Preparing your keeper for each opponent: the sessions before the match, the warm-up, set plays, analysis and the setbacks a season brings.
You'll learn what a keeper should scan for as play develops, how those cues shape their decisions, and how to judge those decisions fairly.
You'll see real sessions planned around two matches, each built from how the next opponent scores. If they like to cut inside and finish, one session is shot-stopping from those angles.
You'll learn how your keeper's individual work fits into the team's training.
Drawing on observations of professional goalkeepers' warm-ups and interviews with their coaches, you'll learn what the match warm-up is for and how to run one that has your keeper ready for kick-off.
You'll learn what set plays ask of your keeper, and where their decisions come in.
You'll learn how to help a keeper through setbacks such as losing their place, including how to explain a selection and keep a dropped keeper involved.
You'll learn how to turn what you know about an opponent into jobs for your keeper, then review the match against those jobs.
You'll learn how to organise your defence against set plays, including where your keeper starts and what they're responsible for.
You'll learn what GPS data shows about a keeper's training load: more explosive work in training than in matches, which is why the hardest sessions come well before it.
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No. It's for anyone who coaches senior goalkeepers, at any level. "Senior" means adult keepers, and "Senior Pro Level" is the level of the course. The examples come from the professional game, and they carry across because the job has the same shape everywhere: every keeper trains, every match has an opponent, and every keeper warms up.
Yes. With one session, every minute counts, so you'll learn to train decisions and technique together. You'll also see how to coach your keeper inside the team's small-sided games. And match day gives you a second chance to prepare them.
Clips are useful for ideas. The course gives you what they leave out: where a drill belongs in your sessions, what the next opponent changes, and how to run match day. The drills and sessions come from goalkeeping coaches and specialists, each with its reason, in the order you'll use them.
Use what you have, even if it's a result and what you saw last time. The less you know, the fewer jobs you give your keeper. Whatever you know about how they score becomes one of those jobs.
The training environment comes first. It covers the coach's role, what a match asks of a keeper, how to train decisions and technique together, planning sessions, nutrition and pressure. The game environment covers decisions and anticipation, real sessions planned around two matches and the next opponent, the warm-up, set plays, setbacks, match analysis and training load. Match day sits in the game environment, with the sessions before it.
As you work through it. The methods come from goalkeeping coaches and specialists in the professional game, and each module goes into your sessions, your opponent plan and your warm-up as you reach it.
No. It's built for coaches. Goalkeeping coaches and specialists explain their reasoning in football terms, and you work at your own pace.
You work through video modules from each coach and specialist, with reading references before and after each one. It's all online, so you study when and where suits you.
Yes. It's self-paced and works on any device, so you can pause a module and pick it up when your fixtures allow.
They open in order, each after a short test on the one before. Training comes first, then the game.
The modules are in English. You can switch on subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Dutch, German or Italian.
A short multiple-choice test after each module, and a tutor-assessed assignment. You're awarded a certificate when you reach the 75% pass grade.
You hold it as a professional certificate next to your UEFA, FA or federation licence. "Masters" names the level of the course. See which football associations and universities recognise ISSPF courses
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On this course:
"Having taken the Professional Masters in Goalkeeping Coaching Science (Senior PRO Level), I can safely say that the content delivered on this course has helped me gain valuable knowledge & enhance my coaching."
Stuart Garden, June 2023, Trustpilot review
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