Hello, this is Stefano from bestsoccertricks.com. Today, we will be showing you how to stop the
ball from going through your legs as a goalkeeper. Alright, so a lot of goalkeepers ask the question
how to stop the ball from going through the legs. But there's two important parts actually.
The first one is we just finished teaching you how to catch the ball if it's going up
over your abdominals, there's also a way to catch it as soon as it's going underneath
your abdominals and that's also how to stop it from going between your legs.
Once again, it also depends how fast the shot is coming uh this is a basic tutorial
but sometimes you got to improvise during a game situation we all understand that. So,
the steps that's going to happen is once the ball is going underneath your abs you have to be ready
to catch it underhand. That was one of the other reasons why your hands had to be straight, because
if they're like this and the ball goes underneath you don't have the enough time to get underneath.
So, if your hands are straight and the ball goes underneath, you're ready to catch it you're gonna
bend your knee a bit if it's a bit um under your abdominals, you're going to catch it like this
curl your hands and absorb the ball. If the ball is going low, for example it's going to
try and go in between my legs you're going to go on one, you have two choices, if it's going slow
enough you can go on one knee and pick it up but a lot of goalkeepers do is they'll go like this
and they'll lean forward to absorb the ball, depending on the speed of the shot of course.
The last option, is well you kind of just stick your foot out, that's not the preferred option
as it leaves a rebound but once again if you have to improvise and you don't have
the time to actually catch the ball you could do that. Also, in your stance your legs shouldn't
be too wide, so there shouldn't be too much space in between your legs. When someone shooting yes
there's a bit of space to go in between my legs but if i just move my leg a half a foot, there's
no room for it to go in between them period. So, we're going to have an example here with my striker.
So, first he's going to shoot in the abdominal range, just so I can show you how to catch
it underhand and how having your hands in the straight position will help you out.
[Goalkeeper showing soccer tips]
There you go, so once again you go on one knee and you absorb the ball.
[Soccer goalkeeper stopping the ball]
Don't try and go on
your knees and catch it the original way because you're you think that you're going to be lower
it doesn't really work out. Because you don't have the balance necessarily to absorb the ball.
[Goalkeeper demonstrating a soccer exercise]
So as you can see, the ball could bounce sometimes especially if you don't angle your hands properly
as I just did. So, when you go on your knee you're going to want to make sure that you
caress it from the point and don't leave your hands at like a 90 degree, you want to caress it
out of curve. Because when it's out of curve, it's going to roll straight up.
[Soccer exercise for goalkeepers]
So that's the second
option, the third option you got is to just dive on the floor pretty much and catch it.
[Soccer drill for goalkeepers]
This isn't really one of my preferred methods but the chances of you leaving a rebound at this
point are less, as well as you're going to waste more time so if it's at the end of the game you can
exaggerate a bit uh giving your team more time if you need it or sorry less time for the other team
in this case. So, the last one basically is stick out your foot, like I said my feet are not wide
enough well they are wide enough right now for it to go in between but not they're not so wide.
The bad side of it is it gives a rebound when shots are coming fast
though sometimes you're obliged especially if it's close range like the the shooter is here
if he shoots from there there it by the time you get down it's going to be too late
so most of the time that's when you'll use your feet.
[Soccer drill with player and goalkeeper]
If you can, try and divert it to the exterior part of the net and not just give it right back to him
if possible. Thank you for watching that video on how to stop the ball from going between your
legs as a goalkeeper. I hope you enjoyed it, just remember the three different steps the
three stages I mean. So one knee, catching it and absorbing basically lying down and
catching it or the third is with your foot. Make sure you practice these, it helps with rebounds
especially on low balls. Like I said, you want to try and avoid your feet as much as possible
that's why you're a goalkeeper so you could use your hands. For more information
just go to bestsoccertricks.com and hit that like video thank you.
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