Goalkeeping in Handball
Prepared By
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Khaled Hammouda
“ CCM - Lecturer IHF ”
India – Jammu
November 2012
The goalkeeper is the player who by
virtue of his position –is the last
hurdle in the path of ball thus his
defense work is directly specialized
to prevent goal shooting
Basic position
The primary condition
of effecting defense
work is to take such
a starting position
from which the
goalkeeper can move
his body and limbs
quickly , accurately
and expediently at
any moment and in
any direction
BASIC MOVEMENTS
Saving shots
1-Saving long range
shots
Usually the long range is
approximately 7 - 10 meters
from middle back section of the
court .
A-Saving high positioned
balls
A- Two handed saving
B- One handed saving
B-SAVING MEDIUM – HIGH POSITIONED
BALLS
C-Saving low
positioned balls
A – SLIDING OUT
B – BREAKING OUT
2-SAVING SIDE
SHOTS
In case of
shots from the
wings the
shooting angle
is greatly
reduced less
surface of the
goal
A- Saving at the near post
B- SAVING BY JUMP OUT
3-Saving close range shots
The common feature of these shots
is that’s the attacker by getting
behind the defenders can execute
a goal shot from close range in an
advantageous position
A- SAVING A CLEAR SCORING
CHANCE
B- SAVING LOB
SHOTS
GOALKEEPERS PREPARATION
The goalkeeper needs a big amount of
muscular coordination which in turn depends
on his kinetic maturity..
As he mainly needs to adjust the direction
of his movements towards the ball which
means developing the sensitivity of
adjusting his body focus along with the ball
The goal keeper needs to develop his motion
sensitivity in moving to both sides, forward &
backward.
Also & as he usually uses his limbs, he needs to
develop the speed of his arms & legs.
The goalkeeper needs to develop the speed of
decision making against the shooting situations
from different positions.
Also he needs to develop the speed of
locomotion between different positions in front of
the goal as he needs to transfer quickly between
locomotion to facing the ball & then back to
locomotion again when the ball moves
THE MAIN PRINCIPLE
The main principle in facing the shots is dividing
the defensive job between the goalkeeper & the
alternating defender which means a big need to
develop the speed of cooperation between both
of them in different positions.
The goalkeeper has to follow the
motion of the ball during the
whole defending period which
needs developing the AUTOMATION
of following the ball motion &
moving along with it.
PREDICTION
Prediction is one of the most important talents for
a handball goalkeeper as he needs to predict the
best position of the opponent offender to shoot
so that he can be ready facing this position
Both of the speed of movement
frequency & the speed of response
are very important for a goalkeeper
as they integrate together in one
frame to form the main job for
handball goalkeepers
A goalkeeper does not have a defending
job only, but he can be an offender also,
which means that he must have the
ability to transfer quickly from defending
to offending.
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