Video: Catching a High Ball: Soccer Goalie Tips

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Catch a high shot as a goalkeeper in soccer; learn how in this free beginner soccer skills video lesson, with tips for goalies on how to play the game of soccer (football or futbol).

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nhanbachkhoa Aug 02, 2008
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Video Transcript

We are looking at some soccer techniques, and now we are going to take a look at some goalkeeping. First of all we are going to have a look how the goalkeeper takes a shot that is high. To show the basic handling technique taking the high shoot, we want to have our hands like so; our thumbs are always close together. You can see that it is almost in a W shape, with our index finger positioned as follows. If we are taking the ball high, and we can see that our hands have to be slightly over the top of the ball with our elbows outward so we can absorb the shot. Let's show that with our goalkeeper receiving a high shot. Okay you have your hands out; you want them to be close a little bit more. One more. Do one more. And that is how as a goalkeeper you deal with taking shots that are coming in around head height.

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Catching a High Ball: Soccer Goalie Tips

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