I’m curious to learn about the balance between team training and goalkeeper-specific training in different parts of the world. With the season coming to an end, I’d love to hear how other goalkeepers structure their weekly training schedules. For reference, my son’s current routine includes two team training sessions per week Tuesday and Thursday, one dedicated goalkeeper-specific session on Wednesday, and one additional day focused on footwork and ball skills on Friday. Looking forward to hearing how others approach their training balance.

So trying to be more proactive in preventing injuries. What do your warm ups entail? And are they at home or when you arrive at match? Stretches/handling? So there's a theme of warm-ups being mainly focused on outfield players/passing etc. Little upper body. Once arrived at match, clubs do not allow any parent interaction. So we have started to get up earlier (meets at 8.30 up to 1hr away), and try to do some gentle stretches and some handling before he leaves. But I'm wondering if we should do more? Any ideas? Thank you. PS should add I'm trying to make sure he takes ownership/responsibility for being warmed up. Rather on relying on others. His health conditions aren't what others deal with. So he needs to learn to manage his himself.

My 13 year old lad has just made this video from last season. He suffers with his size due to being type1 diabetic and having severe hypos through the night resulting in countless bottles of lucozade and biscuits during the night. He has trialled at 3 professional clubs who have all said the same thing, loads of potential but due to size unable to offer a contract. He plays grassroots for our local team and JPL (top division) for Oxfordshire. Has anyone else on here got a child with type1 diabetes? If so how do you try to keep on top of sugar levels when it comes to matchdays and training sessions?

Had some time away for a bit of a mental health break to try and rest and deal with daily life as Zak has had a tough few weeks at school. What have I missed? How is everyone? Training got cancelled again this week as one coach had work and our other has been told to rest due to a hernia. A bit nervous for the game this coming Saturday. Zak’s extremely anxious. It’s the team that are currently top of the league and has one of his bullies on the team. So fill me in! We will hopefully get back to regular now!

How many pairs of gloves do you / your kids have? and do you have the same colours / style for the spares / training…. wish i knew what the different ones meant lol my daughter likes these 2 to match her kit colours but there different styles should i stick to the same (to me the both look the same) thanks