The scientific community in charge of the study of physical activity and sport, including physical trainers, are increasingly looking into the functional study of the body. The latest evidence shows the importance of including the structure of the foot in the athlete's daily work. In

Why does the goalkeeper get out of position? What causes the loss of positional play? Is it the teammates, the opponents, the playing fields? Every day we try to answer these questions that disturb us so much and cause an infinite number of errors in our goalkeepers. We analyse matches, training sessions, we generate clips so that the goalkeeper can observe himself and we still can’t find the solution. Next, we will talk about the number one reason that drags the goalkeeper out of the ideal position to intervene and causes all these problems: the ball.

There is a lot of talk about specific strength training for goalkeepers today, highlighting its extreme importance in improving performance and preventing injuries. We hear and read information about working with weights, eccentric work with isoinertial machines, upper body work, etc. But do we really know how all these forces converge in the body, how the force is related from the leg during a collapse save to the hand that deflects the ball? Here’s the real secret to improving the efficiency of force transfer from all vectors: CORE work.

Day by day, the members of the technical staff are increasing, from the coach and his assistants to the medical staff and physiotherapists, and in recent years, game analysts, set-piece analysts, and of course, goalkeeping coaches who often play both roles: goalkeeping coach and analyst of opponents or of the team itself.

Two of the best goalkeepers in the world meet again in the same stadium. Unai Simón for Athletic Bilbao and the Spanish national soccer team, and Thibaut Courtois for Real Madrid and the Belgian national team. In this article we analyse their performances, some of them decisive for the final outcome of the match. Undoubtedly, two world-class goalkeepers who, despite their imposing physique and wingspan, do not leave anyone indifferent with their tactical solvency and their unselfishness with their footwork.

The group stage of Europe’s top competition, the Champions League, has resumed and with it we can once again enjoy the play of the best goalkeepers in the world. In this case, the competition brings us the clash of two giants of the old continent, Atlético de Madrid and Liverpool and, consequently, two of the best goalkeepers in the world: Alisson and Oblak. In this article we analyse the most outstanding actions of both goalkeepers and answer the question that every goalkeeping coach asks himself at the end of a match: Was my goalkeeper decisive?

The goalkeeper’s performance, like that of any other athlete, depends on his or her conditional capacity. Below, we explain the importance of developing strength in the vertical vector to improve the performance of our goalkeepers in the jump, a key concept in the vast majority of aerial actions, and we show three exercises that we consider basic to develop this ability.

As goalkeeping coaches, do we design the best possible warm-up so that our goalkeepers enter the game 100% prepared? Do we cover all the sections that a complete warm-up requires, or do we simply carry out technical sequences so that the goalkeeper warms up? Below, we offer you a deeper reflection on the true usefulness of the warm-up and the orientation we are committed to in order to design a specific warm-up for our goalkeepers.