Mel Maizels · Goalkeeping
So here are five complete goalkeeper sessions you can run this week. Sixty minutes each, written out end to end, for someone who has never played in goal.
Free, instant, no catch. The PDF opens on the next page.
goalkeepers get no goalkeeper training at all in a week, and around half get one session or none. Asked of my own followers, September 2026.
Five sessions, deliberately spread across the things keepers struggle with most. Run them in any order.
Handling. Catching and passing, a keeper's two most-used skills.
Diving, built from the floor up so nobody gets hurt.
Shot stopping from angles. The cheapest improvement in goalkeeping.
Distribution. Half their touches, five per cent of their training.
1v1s. The moment that decides matches, and almost never taught.
You do not need to have played goalkeeper. Nothing in here asks you to demonstrate anything.
Head Goalkeeper Coach, A-League Women. Championship-winning goalkeeper turned elite goalkeeper coach, finishing the Goalkeeping A Licence in 2026. These are the sessions I actually run, written so someone who has never played in goal can run them too.
The Starter Pack is block one. The full Playbook is sixty complete sessions across twelve blocks, a season's worth of goalkeeper coaching in one place.