What other sports does your soccer player play?

Winter Basketball was more developmentally beneficial for our experienced GK over winter training break. Not the only correct answer for every position or player.

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11/01/2021 23:53

Subject: What other sports does your soccer player play?

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MMA, Hunting, Survivial, Long range shooting.

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11/01/2021 23:56

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Anonymous wrote:Futsal

The only correct answer.

+1000

Winter Basketball was more developmentally beneficial for our experienced GK over winter training break. Not the only correct answer for every position or player.

OP here,

Can you talk more about that? My kid is a GK.

He'll play some futsal with his club, but the question is what he plays at school, where futsal isn't an option. Why do you think Basketball worked well?

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11/02/2021 00:32

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Basketball helps round out a GK's athleticism, jumping, speed, stamina, and ability. Our GK is a thinker and one of their great strengths is athleticism and tactical communication with their team. They PREVENT goals which is a basic tenant of Basketball defense and a stat (as a GoalKeeper parent) I feel is woefully overlooked in soccer. Anyone can be the Keeper in a Futsal game, only great athletes can be the Keeper in a Soccer match or an amazing defensive basketball player.

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11/02/2021 01:23

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Anonymous wrote:Basketball helps round out a GK's athleticism, jumping, speed, stamina, and ability. Our GK is a thinker and one of their great strengths is athleticism and tactical communication with their team. They PREVENT goals which is a basic tenant of Basketball defense and a stat (as a GoalKeeper parent) I feel is woefully overlooked in soccer. Anyone can be the Keeper in a Futsal game, only great athletes can be the Keeper in a Soccer match or an amazing defensive basketball player.

Wow - totally disagree on that point. Not taking anything away from basketball, but I think Futsal is great for keepers in terms of learning when, and how, to come off their line, since it happens a lot more in Futsal than in soccer. Keepers, also, are going to face a lot more shots over the course of a game in Futsal
- certainly not nearly as large of a goal to defend, but a lot of quick reactions vs point blank shots.

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