Goalking

Professional Soccer Academy

GOALKING offers the most comprehensive curriculum for goalkeeper technique in the Edmonton region. Participants will learn proper basic to advanced techniques for: catching & handling, stance and set position, shot saving, diving saves, distribution, breakaway saves, crossed balls, and goal kicks. GOALKING training is guaranteed to challenge every goalkeeper physically while instilling in them a more sophisticated understanding of the goalkeeper position.

GOALKING and our founder Armando Sanchez have trained more than 600 goalkeepers since 2007 in Western Canada. A former professional soccer player in Mexico for the team LEON FC with 9 years of experience coaching goalkeepers, Armando was also selected last summer to co-run the 2015 FC BARCELONA Camp for goalkeepers in Edmonton, working in conjunction with FC BARCELONA trainers from Spain. Now he works closely with young Canadian goalkeepers, coaching and training them according to Latin American professional soccer methods. Armando holds the Advanced National Goalkeeping Diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA), which certifies him as a goalkeeper trainer for elite players all the way up to the university /college level. He also organizes and coordinates international professional soccer camps with former professional players and teams. GOALKING bases its training on:

1. Goalkeeper Technical Training
2. Goalkeeper Tactical Training
3. Goalkeeper Mental Development
4. Goalkeeper Physical-Skill Building
5. Goalkeeper Field Coaching Support