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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

5 years

Which is better, the save or the free kick? You decide.

Out Of Context Football

@nocontextfooty

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@Keepers_Union

4 years

Again: Tziarra King did not play DA, ECNL, or ODP, and committed to a college program coming off a two-win season. Played in 3 Sweet 16s, 1st Round NWSL pick, scored on debut. The most unique & arguably best recruiting job in women's college soccer history.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

5 years

Arsenal & Everton fans dreading their rivals winning a huge trophy....spare a thought for Boca Juniors fans, who had to watch their greatest rivals win the biggest trophy AGAINST THEM. I may have mentioned this before...😎

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Imagine training with Ben Foster every day. The energy, the enthusiasm, the positivity. You wouldn't even notice how hard you're working. So why not BE Ben Foster in training?

Watford FC Academy

@WatfordFCAcad

2 years

Take a bow, Dante Baptiste! 👏 This double save to keep out @BenFoster 🤯

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@Keepers_Union

5 years

Looked like that whole mess came from Villa assuming Leeds would stop playing, but why should they? Opposing striker down, not like he was going to be involved with defending that move. Just keep playing??

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

1 year

@Gael_Monfils Favorite thing is the first couple episodes at the Australian Open with all the young guys saying ‘The legends have been amazing but it’s my time now’ and then Rafa wins it.🤣

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 years

@PrisonPlanet Wow. The picture of the three teens is particularly terrifying. You can tell they would kill you instantly, for no reason. 😂

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

@_Zeets @AFHStewart Please don't forget that he then managed to deflect the shot past De Gea.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

6 years

Full, and I mean FULL, stretch from Lloris. Great save.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

@LiveLifeDrake The countries he's referring to don't have the geographic diversity to play in better conditions. We do.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

6 years

😱👏👏

SCCP MAIS

@sccpmais

6 years

MONSTRUOSO, GIGANTE CÁSSIO

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

1 month

Do you remember when Mikel Arteta hinted at some kind of revolutionary two-number-one goalkeeper system? Remember the suggestion he could even sub one keeper for the other during a game for tactical reasons? Anyway there’s still time for that, let’s just see.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

Goalkeeping

Steve Vladeck

@steve_vladeck

4 years

We need to invent a word that captures the combination of existential dread, cautious optimism, and bone-deep physical and psychological fatigue.

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@Keepers_Union

5 years

If you've never been on a training ground with a fulltime professional goalkeeper, you can't believe how good they are: quick, explosive, agile, strong, brave. Ignore internet white noise about a keeper being 'useless' or 'crap.' It's just a humbling position

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

1 year

@StokeyyG2 This is how games were decided if they ended in a draw. A foul in the box during the match still resulted in a normal penalty.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

I designed t-shirts for goalkeepers

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

A persistent young goalkeeper habit is only diving for shots they're sure they can reach, and watching better shots go in. 'I can't get that,' they'll complain. Diving makes you better at diving, whether you save the shot or not.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

I’ll be very surprised if there aren’t multiple USMNT players who don’t want to play for Berhalter again. Even ones who may have been critical of Gio themselves. Most players don’t want to see that kind of stuff come out publicly from managers.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

‘Not every cross into the six yard box is automatically the goalkeeper’s’

McDonald's

@McDonalds

3 years

what should our sign say today?

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 years

@JohnBShoup @PrisonPlanet But they're FOREIGN. That means they will murder you until you're dead!

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Have you ever watched swimmers train? They swim. If you want to be good at speed ladders, jumping over hurdles, or diving under ropes, then do those things. They'll help your aerobic fitness If you want to be good at goalkeeping, see lots of shots & try your best to save them

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

On the bright side, goalmouths around the world are filling back in with grass.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

6 years

The term "clean sheet" originated in the early 1900s. Goalkeepers who prevented the opposition from scoring were gifted free washing for the week, hence 'clean sheets.' Kind of surprising it has persisted.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Got married this weekend 🙂

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

5 years

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, but especially goalkeepers. You’ve made a terrible life decision but there’s no going back now, so try to make the best of it.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

@CharlotteMLS Charlotte FC. That's what you came up with? Charlotte FC. How many creative professionals did you hire to come up with this? Charlotte FC. I mean how bland did you want to be MY GOD CHARLOTTE FC IT'S SO GENERIC AND sorry sorry, lost control for a moment. Whew. But yeah CHARL

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

10 months

@TimesSport @matthewsyed Pathetic article, poorly researched *which you admit* and in service of your personal agenda. Players standing up for themselves is not ‘moral cowardice.’

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

5 years

⁦ @DougDeMuro ⁩ Ferrari 330 in Raleigh yesterday.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

6 years

@neilreynoldsnfl And if he had to play Nadal on clay, he'd probably lose. I can't see him getting regular minutes for the Warriors. And don't get me started on his hockey ability, he's average at best.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

Happy New Year to everyone, but especially goalkeepers. Never forget that the whole world loves goals. Your job in 2020 is to disappoint the entire world.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

10 years

De Gea's day in 6 seconds:

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

6 months

Merry Christmas to everyone, but especially goalkeepers. Yes, you made a terrible life choice and there’s no going back now and this position will provide you precious little joy and a lot of stress and heartache, but…sorry, I got nothing. But Merry Christmas, at least? 🤷🏽‍♂️🎄

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 months

@Zonal_Marking @benlyt We tell our players to wait as long as they comfortably can. As a goalkeeper, you’d much rather not be standing there physically tensed up.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Starting a goalkeepers-only twitter. Only 5 stock replies allowed: 1. Had no chance with that one 2. It was deflected 3. Couldn't see it 4. Had no right to make that save 5. Good goalkeeper, even better person

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

@davidpreece12 That's absurd

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 months

UC Irvine’s subs actually sit down on the bench. I applaud this and wish it were the norm. Somehow we have normalized the frankly psychotic behavior of subs standing throughout the entire game.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

1 year

Merry Christmas to all goalkeepers, past and present. You beautiful weirdos.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 years

@MrDrewScott @MrSilverScott Have you guys seen this? 🙂

Today, on HGTV

Twin brothers show a family a home outside their target neighborhood. The twins are very attractive and tall. Will the family make the move?

www.newyorker.com

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 years

Messi is 30. Suarez is 30. Neymar is gone. It's hard to see how things improve for Barcelona over the next few years.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

In training I encourage young goalkeepers to test their range when dealing with cutbacks or crosses. That’s the only way to learn which balls you can claim & which you should leave. ‘Good judgment comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgment’

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Just had a gk session with two attacking players working their way back to full fitness & let me tell you, there’s real value to that. They finish with speed, precision & most importantly a total lack of empathy for goalkeepers that is difficult to match.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 years

This, by @CaitlinPacific , is horrifying, and should be read by *every* college student (and parent) in the US

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

Every goal scored at the near post is the goalkeeper’s fault.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone, but especially to goalkeepers. You’re special, different, and wonderful people making the best out of a terrible life decision. Cheers 🎄

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

Here's a thread about recruiting, coaching, and developing college goalkeepers, because there are a lot of people out there who have never done any of these things but have opinions about it. This is Sydney Wootten. She was our starting goalkeeper from 2015-18.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

6 years

Couldn't be happier to be coming home!

NC State Women's Soccer ⚽️

@PackWSoccer

6 years

#WPN help us welcome Justin Bryant ( @Keepers_Union ) back to our program as Director of Goalkeeping! 📰

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

I know it’s a busy news day, but it’s also our five-year anniversary ❤️

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

You have to respect Alex McCarthy appealing for offside with a defender right next to him. Never stop hoping.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Emi Martinez will never spend a dime of his own in Argentina for food or drink for the rest of his life.

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@Keepers_Union

3 years

@Raumdeuter_Role

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

12 years

gif of the De Gea save from Torres: http://t.co/iUIXRB7R

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

5 years

@jazuletaj An irrelevance. River did that to themselves. River did this TO Boca. Man to man. Better man won.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 months

I dislike the 'What does everyone think' framing of this, as if it's a matter of opinion. The laws are VERY clear: holding the ball in one outstretched hand constitutes control of the ball, and the goalkeeper CANNOT be challenged for the ball when in control.

Fanzine WSL

@FanzineWSL

7 months

This was given as a goal last night. What does everyone think? 🤔

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

@Jason_Shetler Gayle Sayers. Christ almighty I'm old.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Signed a book contract this morning for a novel I've been working on since my MFA years, 2005-08. Stick with it, guys. The good stuff doesn't often come easily.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

5 years

Such a great feeling when the team you support has a goalkeeper you can rely on.

River Plate Photos

@RiverPlateFoto

5 years

A R M A N I N C R E Í B L E

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Yesterday I took on some InstaGram trolls who go around posting critical comments on young keepers’ videos. Turns out none of them know what they’re talking about. Who could’ve guessed?

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Navas has unusual technique at times, and I think because of that, has been routinely overlooked and disparaged, all the while winning everything and generally doing his part and more. Some people just don't rate keepers who don't play the way they think is 'right.'

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

@funtimefranky80 @bryansgunn Not time - steps. You could only take four steps with the ball before you had to release it from your hands. But you could pick it back up again.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

This is a DREAM sequence of photos for any keeper 😃💪

Adelaide Gay

@AdelaideAGay

4 years

Swipe 🔜 #GameDay #ReuschGK @reuschgking @Kvinnefotball1 #KleppElite

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 months

Well, it’s World Goalkeeper Day, the day we celebrate one of the most insane life choices you could’ve possibly made. Enjoy! 🧤🧤

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

14 days

Hi friends. Bryce let us know yesterday that he was ready to go. He went peacefully while Sarah and I held him, before his horrible cancer caused him any pain. He was the best boy and we loved him very much and are hurting terribly now. But we’ll go on💔

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

5 years

Here’s a @syd_schneider story: in her very first college game as a freshman, she saved a penalty against no less than Virginia. In her next game, against Butler, she saved another one.💪

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

I’m more convinced than ever that after a certain point of technical development, effective goalkeeping is almost all about handling pressure. Match results, career progression, managing internal and external expectations, trusting decisions. That’s the stuff.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

One issue I see in young goalkeepers is failing to account for tone. Screaming 'away!' and 'time!' in the exact same tone, for example, doesn't consider that defenders under pressure may not immediately hear/process the words you say, but instead react in the moment to your tone.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Commentators love to say a keeper has 'made amends' for a poor goal with a great save. Isn't that a nice thought? Has anyone ever actually felt that way? I could save ten penalties after a bad goal, and I'd go to bed that night thinking about the bad goal.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

There were people who wanted Meslier replaced with a ‘steady veteran.’ What a counterproductive waste that would’ve been. Leeds are going to finish solidly mid-table and with a full season of experience under their promising young keeper’s belt. That’s priceless.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

imo one of the biggest mistakes you can make as a coach is thinking you have nothing to learn from coaches younger/less experienced/at a lower level of the game than you. It can often be the opposite. A young coach is not burdened with having a way they’ve ‘always done it’.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Sometimes they actually give the goalkeeper coach his own room

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Brendan Rogers thinks Kasper Schmeichel doesn't get enough credit. I agree, but also think it's a blessing to fly under the radar. Goalkeepers get praised for only so long before it transitions to 'overrated'. Happened to Oblak just this week...

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Happy #InternationalGoalkeeperDay ! We’ve all made a dubious-at-best life choice, so let’s make the best of this one token day before everything is our fault again.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 years

Here are the training drills and methods I no longer use: Some - possibly many - will disagree.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

@brandichastain He was calling his third consecutive game of the day, so I’m putting it down as an honest, fatigue-related mistake. How about the NCAA allocate resources better so nobody has to do this?

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

7 years

David James' tweets about Eni Aluko are why more women don't come forward with abuse or harassment allegations. Very disappointing.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

6 years

To all the college goalkeepers, women and men, about to start preseason: good luck, stay healthy, and make the most of your chances (and also keep your set position neutral and your weight forward).

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

1 year

@nntaleb Freeload? WE PROVIDE THE CONTENT.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

1 year

@WestHam I think we’ve found the first AI generated match promotion

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

8 months

I’ve been speaking to a family recently who have a young goalkeeper despondent over the number of times he’s been told he’s too small. He’s 5’10” at 16 years old 🤷🏽‍♂️🤦🏽

The Modern-Day GK

@themoderndaygk

8 months

Please don’t give up over an opinion. You could be ONE manager / coach away from staying in the game completely.

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1 year

@themoderndaygk Me blasting the ball as hard as I can into the top corner, just to let them know that goalkeeping is a terrible, thankless thing nobody should do. 20 years later, he tracks me down and thanks me.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

5 years

I love activities where the keeper is forced to drop back to find the line. Video analysis shows we often retreat into a set position. This was *never* trained in the old days. Also, 💪💪 Lonners 😎

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

In this short clip Anthony illustrates perfectly what is wrong with so much of the goalkeeper curriculum in this country: we hammer technique, tweak hand positions etc down to the last millimeter, and then when games start, kids don't know what they're doing.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Intimidation is a big part of successful goalkeeping. Not only (or necessarily) physical intimidation; intimidate thru confidence, body language, presence. This isn’t golf. You have opponents. They need to know you’re there and you’re going to be a problem for them.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

The awareness of this is one of the biggest developments in GK coaching since I played. Seems obvious now, but in the 80s/90s were were told to ALWAYS 'narrow the angle.' Alex Welsh was the first gk coach I had who got me thinking differently about this

GkNexus

@GkNexusOfficial

3 years

In certain situations, it can be beneficial for the #goalkeeper to be still & set at the ‘trigger' moment 🧤 Here is @burtonalbionfc #gkcoach @AndyQuy1 discussing the reasoning behind this in recent GkNexus content 🗣 WATCH more content👉

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

Something younger coaches often don’t realize is that players notice everything about you. If you try to wing a session, they notice. If you bluff your way through the answer of a question, if you’re struggling with your own fitness, if you wear mismatched gear, etc...they notice

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

6 years

@JSB_TV You have universal health care and no mass shootings. You gotta give us this one gold medal.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Commentators here are finding reasons to question everything Meslier does, including a successful punch and a successful clearance of a bobbling back pass. When they get an idea in their heads, they cling to it like my pit bull does to a squeaky toy.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

@MorganJerkins There was a corner store right next to Freebird Bookstore in Brooklyn where the shelves were always 80% empty. There were soda brands I'd never heard of, and at ATM from the 90s.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

11 years

Barca fans upset with De Gea's courting of Thiago? It was all fun and games when your players were stuffing Fabregas into an Barca shirt....

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Apart from actually scoring a goal, this must be the closest in feeling a goalkeeper can get to scoring a goal. Saving an added-time penalty while up a goal in a Final.

U.S. Soccer Men's National Team

@USMNT

3 years

Hometown hero came up 𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐄. Ethan Horvath was INCREDIBLE last night. 🙌🇺🇸

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

Just a few games in, but we're starting to get it

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

Today I watched a college goalkeeper keep her team in a game despite being totally outmatched. Result didn’t go her way in the end, which is justice done really as the opponent deservedly won; but it was impressive to see a calm goalkeeper when all around her was chaos.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

I applaud the inspired lunacy of this.

James Dart

@James_Dart

4 years

In which Polish keeper Hieronim Zoch opts to put himself in the wall for a free-kick

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Justin Bryant

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2 years

Session with a talented young keeper this morning. Me: Are you comfortable with your arms like that in your set position? (was obvious he wasn’t) Him: Not really. But it’s what my coaches want me to do. “I’m not comfortable but it’s what my coaches want” seems bad 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

3 years

@Phil_Lewis_ Not disagreeing, but this one has to run it close:

News Blooper - Got the wrong guy

Visit www.top20lists.com for more bloopers

www.youtube.com

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

@GrahamSpiers The goalkeepers were just about the best performers at the last World Cup. They are outstanding in the NWSL. This is just confirmation bias on your part. How about this: goalkeeping is HARD and errors are common at every level of the game, men's and women's.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

At age 54, top hand is your friend.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

2 years

I think as goalkeeper coaches we have to remind ourselves where our expertise truly lies, and seek input from professionals for other areas (such as kinesiology), where our lifetime of assumptions about things that appear intuitive might be wrong.

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Justin Bryant

@Keepers_Union

4 years

'Martinez is beaten, post comes to the rescue' 😡 Maybe he wouldn't be 'beaten' had the shot actually been on target, and therefore closer to him. Where does this idea come from that the post/crossbar can stop a goal?

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