A-Z of Goalkeeping: Scientific Approaches to Goalkeeping in Football

The goalkeeper. An enigma, an outlier, or just another player?

In this concise and focussed book on goalkeeping - presented in an A-Z format - top coach and author Andy Elleray distils years of experience in the game into 61 key topic areas that help to increase understanding of the position and how to develop it.

Made up of a mixture of characteristics, attributes, playing factors and chosen players, Andy highlights the most significant elements of goalkeeper development, including Agility, Communication, Gloves, Jump Mechanics, Punching, and the Schmeichel family.

This no-nonsense, succinct book gets to the heart of goalkeeper training and advancement and includes a selection of sample session plans.

About the publisher: Bennion Kearny is an independent British publisher, established in 2008, that commissions non-fiction from people who work in the fields they write about - coaches, practitioners, clinicians, lawyers, and academic researchers. Every title is commissioned, edited, and produced in-house, and Bennion Kearnys books are read right across the world. It also publishes under the Hawksmoor Publishing, Oakamoor Publishing, and Dark River imprints.