Antonello Brambilla

Saves and Mistakes Antonello Brambilla

An ideal read for goalkeeper coaches wanting to understand our profession in its entirety by getting to grips with the reasons behind the training drills, and learning new ways to demonstrate and communicate these to achieve the most effective outcome. Antonello Brambilla is an experienced goalkeeper coach who has lived in various cities, in different continents, and has seen many diverse methods of training in action. This book invites coaches to embark on a journey exploring the discovery of the 'Mirror System' and alternative training methods deriving by this discovery, and how these methods can greatly benefit a keeper's development. Brambilla also outlines the importance of a keeper's overall awareness of the game and the opponent's intentions. Inside the reader will find essential guidance and often step-by-step instructions on how to train keepers to develop the following skills; visualisation, learning through observation of a colleague, and gaining essential experience about the opponent's game patterns through situational drills. Antonello, having been a coach for over twenty years in various leagues, has a mountain of knowledge that shines through in ways seldom seen in coaching literature, making this a unique blend of accessible guidance of how to help your keepers as well as transmitting in-depth knowledge, broken into sizeable chunks, that can serve to help coaches find new and innovative ways to guide their number ones.