Coach info

thomas schlieck

Current Borussia Dortmund Head of Goalkeeping Development and former Goalkeeping coach at Bundesliga sides RB Leipzig and Schalke 04.

Thomas has worked within the Bundesliga for 9 seasons and has been responsible in developing youth Goalkeepers at European giants, Borussia Dortmund, since 2015

 

defending cutbacks and narrow crosses

Hot on the heel’s of our first ever GkNexus Xperience event, hosted by Thomas Schlieck, we are thrilled to share with you his latest session designed for your GkNexus Members area.

This fantastic session is designed to help the goalkeepers on their positional awareness, when dealing with cut backs and narrow crosses. Thomas does a fantastic job of initially moving the goalkeepers out of position, whilst practicing their distribution, before giving them a decision to make on the best position to secure for the specific situation within the exercise.

It’s a great display of the philosophy used by Thomas at Borussia Dortmund and the U15 goalkeepers within the session did not disappoint. 

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podcast introduction

It had been a while since we welcomed Thomas Schlieck on to our members only podcast, so it was a pleasure to have him join us to discuss his latest coaching session. This was a fascinating discussion, which includes the importance of having your goalkeeper distribute the ball after every save, moving goalkeepers out of position and the BVB philosophy on tracking performance and match day warm ups.

Session Plan

session key points

Distribution, Balance, Handling, Movement, Communication, Positioning, Timing, Decision making, Shot stopping, Diving, Shape

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