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SUPER SAVER 6 WAYS YOUR KEEPER CAN OUTWIT THE PENALTY TAKER SOCCER COACH WEEKLY Learn • Train • Develop • Enjoy SPECIAL GUIDE < MESUT OZIL HOW GERMANY’S WORLD CUP TO PENALTY KING WIN PENALTY SHOOT CREATE YOUR OWN -OUTS 12-YARD MARKSMAN FRANK LAMPARD’S TOP TIPS FOR HOW YOUR PERFECT KEEPER CAN SPOT KICKS EVEN THE ODDS DEBATE ARE PENALTIES THE RIGHT WAY TO DECIDE YOUTH MATCHES? CONTENTS Plan For The Whole 12 Yards Penalty shoot-outs might not be the best way to resolve a 120-minute stalemate but short of replays, there is no genuine alternative. Penalties create heroes and villains, sort the wheat from the chaff: Agony, ecstasy and unbearable tension. Going into 2014 there had been 22 shoot-outs in the World Cup since the first one in 1982 - when West Germany beat France in an epic semi-final - and there were only two at the 2010 finals in South Africa. Soccer Coach Weekly is Few will forget Ghana losing to published by Green Star Uruguay after missing a penalty with Media Ltd, Meadow View, Tannery Lane, Bramley, the last kick of the match to win it Agony: Ghana went out of the 2010 World Cup on penalties to Uruguay after Guildford GU5 0AB, UK. following Luis Suarez’s deliberate Asamoah Gyan missed a last-minute spot-kick to claim a place in the semi-finals handball to prevent a goal. that misery to go through this time Lampard about scoring penalties Telephone However, few will remember round - small mercies... as well as how best to prepare your +44 (0)1483 892894 Paraguay beating Japan Italy have also lost keeper to become the hero by reading FOR THE RECORD... Editor 5-4 in the tournament’s three but won when it the kicker’s body language and Chris Hunt WORLD CUP [email protected] other shoot-out so they MOST WINS ON mattered in the 2006 making saves. Head Coach are not all back-page PENALTIES final against France. These great sessions will stand David Clarke news. Germany 4 (from 4) Realistically, you may players in good stead for “regulation” [email protected] Germany have never Argentina 3 (4) never have to coach a spot-kicks as well and give everyone Contributors lost a World Cup match Brazil 2 (3) team in the World Cup a chance to have a big impact on Mike Pattenden, Richard Lee, France 2 (4) Frank Lampard on penalties - four wins MOST DEFEATS or any international the team in fun, yet realistic, training - with Argentina’s only tournament but there is exercises. I hope you enjoy using the Illustrations ON PENALTIES Mike Ronald defeat in four being England 3 (from 3) a good chance you will games as much as we enjoyed putting against the Germans. Italy 3 (4) have at least one shoot- them together. Pictures Mexico 2 (2) Action Images, Nick Webster Both of them have out to contend with so Romania 2 (2) beaten England who you need to give your Production France 2 (4) ATG Media Production have failed on all three players a head start. David Clarke Designer occasions they have faced 12-yard This guide contains tips and advice Jamie Leeson trials. At least England fans won’t have from top professionals like Frank Head of Marketing Paul Mortimer paul.mortimer@greenstarmedia. GET YOUR KEEPER IN net In this issue... 6 SAVING MODE Customer Services Brentford keeper Richard Lee - a 12-YARD TIPS Duncan Heard HOW TO BE A man who knows about winning [email protected] PENALTY KING shoot-outs - offers six tips to 3 get your stopper saving more Managing Director It’s always wise to be prepared Andrew Griffiths in case your team has to take penalties. part in a shoot-out. Whether it’s DEBATE: ARE PENALTY (c) Green Star Media Ltd. goalkeepers or penalty takers, All rights reserved. 7 SHOOT-OUTS FAIR? practice is most definitely the key. At the top level, the drama of a Click here to read the full SAVE IN penalty shoot-out can provide disclaimer. SHOOT OUTS a gripping and exciting finale A4 goalkeeper has nothing to lose in to a match but is it right that a penalty shoot-out but by working youth soccer matches should be Give your keeper an edge on movement and reaction saves concluded this way? 1. Young players often look at the he stands more chance of winning. corner they are going to hit the ball. THE PERFECT PENALTY - 2. A wide approach often indicates the SCORE IN 8 A FRANK PERSPECTIVE shooter is going to the opposite corner. SHOOT-OUTS Should England’s World Cup end 3. The ball often goes where the To subscribe to Use5 this knockout game to improve in penalties, Frank Lampard will be Soccer Coach Weekly plant foot and hips point. call Duncan Heard on the ability of your young players to asked to step up. Here he explains 4. A drop of the head = cross-body +44 (0)1483 892894 score from the spot and cope with how your players can keep their shot. Head up = opposite corner. or subscribe online here the pressure of a penalty shoot-out. cool from the spot. SoccerCoachWeekly.net how to win penalty shoot-outs 2 HOW TO WIN PENALTY SHOOT-OUTS x Lampard on the spot in the 2008 Champions League Final How To Be A Penalty King It’s always wise to be prepared in case your team has to take part in a penalty shoot-out. Whether it’s your goalkeepers or your penalty takers, practice is most definitely the key enalty shoot-outs are now such The key is technique first – a solid place the ball and angle their foot. A Words by: a regular feature of football at all striking of the ball and finding the good keeper should stand up straight Mike Pattenden Plevels, it’s highly likely that this corners of the goal. Try getting players and follow the penalty taker’s run-up, Activities by: summer your team will find themselves to aim for the inside of the side netting watching carefully as right footers will David Clarke in a match at a tournament that will be – 35 per cent of successful penalties are favour the left side of goal because they settled by spot kicks. directed into the bottom corners. Firing have to open up their body, and left Frank Lampard is among the Premier high increases the likelihood of putting footers vice versa. In short, your keeper League’s finest penalty takers and he it over, while waiting for the keeper to should make a decision and dive – the knows the importance of working on move takes self-assurance. It’s important chances of it going down the middle are this skill in training, having won and to make sure your players practise, slim because it takes a lot of nerve on the lost shoot-outs with both Chelsea and that they keep it simple and they don’t part of the penalty taker. England. “I think the regular penalty change their minds. On the following pages we have two takers, or pretty regular ones, will practise For goalkeepers, there is no fear of activities to help you prepare your team regularly to keep them at a level,” he says. penalties. In fact, they love them because for a shoot-out – one session to help Lampard is an expert, having scored in it’s a great opportunity to be a hero. the goalkeepers save and one to make the shoot-outs at two Champions League Notable spot kick stoppers in today’s penalty takers feel more confident. finals. But even an old hand like Frank game include Tim Howard, Gianlugi can miss, most notably when he dragged Buffon, Pepe Reina, Petr Cech and one wide in the 2010 FA Cup Final Manuel Neuer. But what’s their secret? “The likes of Frank Lampard will practise against Portsmouth and when he saw his “When it comes to a penalty shoot- taking penalties every day, repeating attempt saved in England’s 2006 World out, a lot is down to confidence, and I Cup shoot-out against Portugal. am a confident person – you want to the behaviour. The ones who generally Other notable penalty takers in the do something special for your team,” miss are the ones who practise just Premier League include West Ham’s says Neuer, who saved penalties from Mark Noble and Southampton’s Rickie both Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaká last the day before and then when asked Lambert, but it’s not for everyone – year to help Bayern Munich through to will you take a penalty, Wayne Rooney, such a good striker of a the Champions League final. He also they say okay, I’ll do it” ball, actually gave up taking them. Each admitted to studying Ronaldo’s penalty- player has a different technique too: taking style before the game. – Former England keeper David Noble is a blaster, Lambert is a placer, Other than research and practice, James on the need to practise while Lampard has a habit of sending the teach your keepers to watch a kicker’s for a penalty shoot-out keeper the wrong way. body language, observe how they SoccerCoachWeekly.net how to win penalty shoot-outs 3 HOW TO WIN PENALTY SHOOT-OUTS Save In Shoot-outs A goalkeeper may have nothing to lose in a penalty shoot-out but by working on his movement and his reaction saves he certainly stands more chance of winning Set up so that the red If you call a colour, the WHY USE IT cone and yellow cone are keeper must dive on the To win more penalty different distances away ball next to that cone and shoot-outs you need to get from the goalkeeper but in then get straight back up your keeper moving and line with each post RED! waiting for the next shot working on reaction saves.

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