Between The Posts Podcast: Keepers | Coaches | Parents | Soccer

Ep. 16: Listen, Your Goalkeepers Will Save Their Next Spot Kick (Penalty Kick)

August 22, 2018 Tyler Vaughan Season 1 Episode 16
Between The Posts Podcast: Keepers | Coaches | Parents | Soccer
Ep. 16: Listen, Your Goalkeepers Will Save Their Next Spot Kick (Penalty Kick)
Show Notes

Episode 16: How Can Your Keepers Save Their Next Spot Kick (penalty kick)?

Between the Posts episodes are all about inspiration, education, and motivation to help you the coach, player, parent, or fan be a better version of yourself on the pitch or sideline! My name is Tyler Vaughan and this is the podcast devoted to goalkeepers and coaches bringing you the most relevant topics discussed weekly to help you tackle each season's challenges. It doesn’t matter whether your a veteran coach or new to coaching, we strive to deliver a variety of topics and strategies for everyone!

This week we’re going to change things up and deliver a bit of a more focused episode that came to us in the form of a question from one of our very own listeners. Last week Brendan emailed in a question regarding penalty save strategies for his son who is a goalkeeper.

Brendan writes:

Tyler, my son has struggled with saving penalties during his club games. Though PK’s don’t happen all that often they somehow always end up defining the outcome of the games he’s in. As a parent, we’ve told him that it’s really not a situation where keepers are expected to make saves. As you can imagine he struggled with that response which I get. My question is this, are there methods, strategies, or even ways to help him have a better chance of saving the next PK? Or is this just a matter of guessing which way to dive and going for it? I’ve got a 14-year-old who hopes you have the secret sauce!

Today's episode tackles this question and more as we introduce some great strategies for approaching the spot kick as a goalkeeper. After a World Cup full of penalty kicks we certainly saw how these short moments can have massive implications on the outcomes of a result and who moves on or goes home. It's really no different at the youth levels anymore, penalty kicks can define matches and send some players home disappointed while others celebrate. But, is that really a fair position to be in as a goalkeeper? Is it really even a save your supposed to make?

In today's episode, we will introduce a few strategies backed by years of experience and... you guessed it...SCIENCE! We typically don't like to rely on our understanding of human anatomy but in today's episode we will push the boundaries of our knowledge and introduce a full proof way to make your next penalty a save!

Goalkeepers aren't expected to save penalty kicks. The stats say 1 out of 10 PK's is a save. So this means that keepers should take these moments as opportunities to be the hero of the team as opposed to carrying the burden of a situation that truly has their backs against a wall. After today's podcast episode you or your keeper will have the confidence to be the hero their team needs the next time they're faced with a 12-yard moment!

Questions or Feedback about the show? Want to be considered for one of our upcoming episodes? Reach out to Tyler at tyler@renegade-gk.com and he'll get back to you!

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