The Best Goalkeeper In The World

Manuel Neuer - Shalke and Germany's No 1. An outstanding World Cup and a text book goalkeeping didplay against Manchester United in the Champions League Semi Final has bought him to the attention of the world.

Will he go to Manchester United, despite a deal with Bayern Munich already supposedly done? I think so. Sir Alex raves about him and described his semi final performance as the best goalkeeping display he has ever seen against Manchesteer United. High praise indeed.

Gavin Wilson
Senior Sports Performance Coach
MINDSi SPORTS PERFORMANCE
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Goalkeepers- You Must Watch This

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Amazing Goalie Tricks

What's he like in matches though?

Gavin Wilson
Senior Sports Performance Coach
MINDSi SPORTS PERFORMANCE
http://www.mindsionline.com/

Meet Our FA Qualified Goalkeeper Coach - Gavin Wilson

Gavin is one of the UK’s premier Sports Performance coaches and, as the founder of MINDSi, has achieved outstanding results in enhancing the sporting performances of athletes, coaches and teams by assessing, evaluating and developing strategies using the latest and most successful techniques available worldwide. 

With a wealth of experience of sport, psychology, leadership, coaching and personal development, Gavin is ideally placed to understand the demands, pressures and expectations of athletes, coaches and teams before, during and after competition.  Gavin’s work covers the complete spectrum of the sporting world from the grassroots to the elite performers and teams.

Gavin has an obvious passion for sport, having played football at a high level. He also has a particular interest and enthusiasm for surfing, squash, basketball and cycling.  Gavin is a qualified FA Goalkeeping Coach and also acts as a Scout for a professional football club.  His other qualifications include Psychology in Soccer, with the Football Association, Mentoring, Psychometric Testing, NLP and Sports Psychology.

Gavin is also a member of BASES (The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences); a world recognised body responsible for promoting excellence in sport and exercise sciences.

As well as sportsmen and women, Gavin has also personally worked with a wide range of individuals, including business leaders, television personalities, actors and politicians; in addition. Gavin has won awards and appeared in the media for his outstanding coaching achievements.

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It Doesn't Get Any Easier The Older You Get

Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper and legend ROMAIN LARRIEU has just reached his triple century of appearances for Argyle, after returning to the side after a prolonged period on the bench whilst young Spurs loanee David Button was between the sticks.

However, the club captain, as deferential as ever, took the opportunity to praise his young protégé who stepped aside for the Colchester game.

David Button has made 22 appearances in his loan spell from Tottenham, but was dropped in favour of Argyle's French stalwart custodian, and Romain moved quickly to praise the 21-year-old.

"I need to talk to you about Butts," said Romain. "Without wishing to sound harsh on the rest of the team, it isn't easy to play behind a team that is losing. No matter how old you are. On a few occasions, it was just a matter of keeping the score down.

"Before I got dropped when Kevin Stockdale (on loan from Fulham) came in, I had played for 18 months behind a struggling team. It's just not easy when you are a goalkeeper and the ball goes in the net all the time.

Experience can get you through it, but when you are young like Butts, you ask yourself too many questions. He was not at fault for anything, but, when you let in goal after goal, your confidence goes down. He's a great lad. Unfortunately you see the character of people when they get dropped, or when it's getting tough. There was no doubt in my mind the way he would react.

I know how I was at his age. But he's done brilliant. Anyone who has watched us play this year will have to say he's done brilliant for us. He shouldn't bang his head against the wall, and I know he won't, because he is positive and clued in."

Wise words indeed from the Argyle keeper and it sums up nicely the life of a goalkeeper - young and old.

Gavin Wilson
Senior Sports Performance Coach
MINDSi SPORTS PERFORMANCE
www.MindsiOnline.com

Goalkeeper Psychology - It's Easy To Criticize

For those goalkeeper critics out there, who have never been brave enough to don the custodian's jersey let me leave you with a few words from my favourite quote:

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat".

Gavin Wilson
Senior Sports Performance Coach
MINDSi SPORTS PERFORMANCE
www.MindsiOnline.com