Monthly assignments
monthly assignments
monthly assignments
Welcome to the main assignments area of your GkNexus mentor program. Within this area you can access all of your main program assignments, which you will complete within your group and/or as an individual.
Each month you will be tasked with an assignment on an aspect of goalkeeper coaching, designed to develop you within key areas, critical to the role of the goalkeeper coach.
Throughout the program, you will be encouraged to challenge yourself, with the support of your mentor and the other mentees, to create professional resources that you can leave the program with, to support you in your journey as a goalkeeper coach.
GROUP assignment 5
GOALKEEPING DEVELOPMENT PROGRam
Your next monthly assignment will once again challenge you to work within a group. Within this assignment, you will be given the opportunity to development a goalkeeping development program, for a specific environment.
Covering foundation, youth development and professional phase, each group will showcase their goalkeeping philosophy and create a program on how they will get their goalkeepers to perform to this philosophy.
Each group will also enjoy a feedback session on Wednesday July 21st, please refer to the assignment document for your allocated time slot.
For more details, please download the document linked below, or visit the recording of the most recent ‘Mentee monthly Zoom call’.
INDIVIDUAL assignment 4
gknexus content creator
It’s time for you to go behind the camera and be a GkNexus content creator. Working within your own unique goalkeeping environment, you are tasked with designing, delivering and videoing a session, before editing and creating your own coaching video.
Using the feedback from your previous video, as well as what you have learned so far on the GkNexus mentor program, you will have the freedom to choose the session theme and Goalkeeper numbers, before delivering the session to the best of your coaching ability.
We want to see player interactions, coaching points and your chosen coaching methods within the video. This is your chance to shine, show us what you’ve got!
INDIVIDUAL assignment 3
MATCH ANALYSIS & SESSION DESIGN
In your first individual assignment within the GkNexus mentor program, we task you to analyse a professional goalkeeper over 2x matches, before designing a session plan to work with them and their squad.
What data will you record within your match analysis that will help you with your session design? The document must be prepared so that you can deliver it to the players/coaches within the respective clubs, therefore how will you create the document language and layout.
You have 90mins to work with the goalkeeper and outfield players to work on any themes you have seen throughout the matches. How will you design and host your session?
This assignment was presented to you on our ‘Mentee monthly Zoom call’ on Tuesday May 4th. You can download the assignment document above and you can also watch the recording of the Zoom session, which can be found within the ‘Mentee monthly Zoom call’ section of the ‘mentee hub’.
group assignment 2
DEFENSIVE SET-PLAYS
For your second assignment, we will once again ask you to collaborate within small groups. An integral part of a goalkeeper coaches role within the modern game is planning and preparing your teams defensive set plays.
We ask that you create a document, on the topic your group was allocated, showcasing how you would create and implement a set-plays curriculum for the 2012-13 Man Utd squad.
What is needed to successfully defend set-plays? How will you set up? How do you implement your program to prepare your team for a match day? How do you review the program?
group assignment 1
design a pre season training program
For your first assignment, we ask that you prepare a pre season training program, for the 2010 group of Manchester United goalkeepers, that Eric Steele worked with during his time at the club.
You will be tasked with creating a calendar of your training and match schedule, which will consider the following: Player workload, what aspects of goalkeeping will you be working on? What days will you be training, taking into consideration the travel schedule?
We also want you to include within the document, details outlining what you are hoping to achieve within your pre-season program, what are the aims and objectives for staff and players and how are you going to collectively achieve them?
upload area
Before uploading, please ensure your full individual/group name and assignment/task title, is within the title of your uploaded file (Example, “Group 1 Pre-season” or “Joe Bloggs IDP”. And, please convert your file type to PDF before uploading. If you would like to send in a Keynote/Powerpoint file, please do so via email to david@gknexus.com. Thank you!
next assignment due
DISCUSSION AREA
Do you have a question for your mentor? Would you like to offer feedback on any assignment? Please comment below or email David, at david@gknexus.com