Keeper Skool Interviews Vince Bartram

Vince Bartram knows a whole lot about what it takes to cut the grade as a professional goalkeeper. As understudy to English goalkeeping great David Seaman, Bartram’s rise to success was not an overnight adventure. It took many years of playing League Football to master his trade before Arsene Wenger’s stellar Gunners oufit came calling. Vince’s tale is truly one of persistence and successfully accepting the fact that goalkeeping is an art that takes many years of laborious study to master. Read more

Keeper Skool Interviews Everton Goalkeeping Great Neville Southall

Keeper Skool recently had the opportunity to interview Neville Southall, arguably one of the best English goalkeepers of his generation. Neville started his career in 1980 at Bury FC, but after one season made a move to the team that he would become synonymous with, Everton.

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Keeper Skool Interviews Mark Williams; Williams Soccer Performance Systems LLC

Mark Williams is no stranger to the fine art of goalkeeping, having played at the college level (in the USA) with Montclair State University, winning all conference honors for his performances between the sticks. Mark took his experiences as a goalkeeper at the collegiate level and utilized it to develop some of the biggest names in goalkeeping as a strength and conditioning coach (Williams Soccer Performance Systems LLC) for the likes of Tim Howard (Manchester United & Everton), Keeper Skool’s good friend Tony Meola, Karina Leblanc of the Canadian Women’s National Team and LA Sol of the newly created WPS League, and Jon Conway of Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bull. Read more

Keeper Skool Interviews Nick Sakiewicz; Philadelphia MLS 2010

Nick Sakiewicz is no stranger to the fine art of goalkeeping. Apart from being the CEO & Operating Partner of Keystone Sports & Entertainment, LLC, the ownership group of the Philadelphia Major League Soccer expansion team which launches play in 2010, Nick was also a very talented goalkeeper growing up. At the University of New Haven where he was recruited by legendary coach, Dr. Joe Machnik, Nick gained All-New England honors in 1980-82 and NCAA Division II All-American honors in 1981 and 1982. To this day, Nick still holds every major goalkeeping record at the University of New Haven. After graduation and since there was no premier professional league in the US, Nick decided to head straight to Europe to consolidate his goalkeeping ability playing for the likes of F.C. Nantes in the French First Division in 1982. He then played for Dr. Machnik with the New York Arrows of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) during the 1983 season and then with F.C. Belenenses of the Portuguese First Division the following year. He later played for the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the APSL during the 1989 season. Read more

Keeper Skool Interviews Youssef Dahha; Montreal Impact (USL)

Keeper Skool is excited to talk with the goalkeeping coach for United Soccer League’s Montreal Impact, Youssef Dahha. Youssef has been the goalkeeping coach for the Impact since the 2004 season. Dahha was born in Morroco and he started his professional career in 1984 with CODM Meknes, in the GNF1, as well as playing with Hassania Agadir. Youssef has also played for Morocco’s Junior and Olympic Teams. Read more

Keeper Skool Interviews Alan Simpson of Linfield United FC (Ireland)

Keeper Skool took time out with Alan Simpson, the owner of NI Goalkeeping (Northern Ireland) and the goalkeeper coach for Linfield Football Club (IFA Premiership , Ireland). Alan, has had a stellar rise in being recognized as one of the leading goalkeeper trainers in Ireland. Alan talks about his development as a goalkeeper growing up in Northern Ireland and his time developing goalkeepers such as Alan Mannus into elite goalkeeping professionals. Alan, has also had the chance to develop Northern Ireland U/23 Men National Football team and the Northern Ireland Woman’s National Team. Read more

Keeper Skool Interviews Tony Meola

Keeper Skool recently caught up with legendary former US men’s national soccer goalkeeper Tony Meola. New Jersey native Meola was a multi-talented high school athlete for Kearny High School in New Jersey. Not only did Tony excel in football (which his father Vincent Meola, who played for Unione Sportiva Avellino in the Serie B, instilled within a young Tony), but he was recognised as one of the top 10 New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1980’s (Source:The Star Ledger, 1999). Tony was captain of Kearny’s basketball team and was drafted by the New York Yankees out of high school. At the University of Virginia, Meola played under Bruce Arena the one time long serving coach of the US men’s national soccer team. Read more

Keeper Skool Interviews Maarten Arts

Keeper Skool recently caught up with world renowned goalkeeping trainer Maarten Arts of the Netherlands. Maarten is known around the globe for his goalkeeper coaching methodologies, most notably his book “The Soccer Goalkeeper Coach”, (Published by Reedswain Inc., 2004) and the range of DVDs titled “Dutch Goalkeeping Drills: Part 1 & 2″. Maarten is currently awaiting the publication of another stellar DVD resource titled “Goalkeeping Coaching Complete” (to be released in the Summer of 2009). You can find out more about Maarten’s online football store and goalkeeping academy at www.progoal.nl and www.keepersscholen.nl. Read more

Keeper Skool Interviews Martin Brennan, Goalkeeper Coach of Wycombe Wanderers

Keeper Skool recently caught up with Martin Brennan, goalkeeper coach for Wycombe Wanderers F.C. (English League Two). Martin started his goalkeeping career as an U/9 at Layton Orient, before signing on with Tottenham Hotspur at 13 years of age, plying his trade with the club for 2 years before moving onto Charlton Athletic. Read more

Keeper Skool Interviews Frans Hoek

How can one encapsulate the career of a goalkeeper educator that is considered the very best in the world? The name Frans Hoek is synonymous (in global football) for providing some of the very best goalkeeper coaching and football development to be found anywhere. Frans Hoek Sports and the ‘Hoek Method’ are brands unto themselves, much like Ferrari or Mercedes Benz is considered the pinnacle of automotive achievement, so to is Frans Hoek’s training methodologies considered at the highest echelon of football development in the world.

Keeper Skool was fortunate enough to chat to the man himself and find out more about what drives him, how he developed his training methodologies at Ajax, Barcelona and the Dutch Royal Football Federation (KNVB) and what training sessions with the likes of Victor Valdes (Barcelona FC, Spain), Edwin van der Sar (Manchester United, Holland) and Artur Boruc (Celtic FC, Polish National Team) entailed. Read more

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