Embedding Psychological Skills in Your Goalkeeper Coaching (UEFA A, UEFA Pro, UEFA GK Licence Holders)
Price: £30.00
- Location: Online
- Course Start Date: 28th October 2026
- Course Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Application Closing Date: 27th October 2026
This course requires evidence to be submitted and approved before it can be started.
Embedding Psychological Skills in Your Coaching
Goalkeeping Workshop Synopsis
As well as the technical, tactical and physical components, goalkeeping requires strong psychological demands. The goalkeeper must make decisions under pressure, recover from mistakes, communicate effectively, manage uncertainty, deal with isolation, maintain concentration during periods of inactivity and repeatedly perform after potentially high-consequence errors.
The session provides coaches with practical strategies for embedding psychological skills into normal technical, tactical and game-based practices. It draws on coaching principles around representative practice, decision-making, autonomy, challenge and reflection.
The workshop explores five key questions:
1. What psychological skills does my goalkeeper need?
2. Where are those skills already present in my practice?
3. How can I deliberately increase or decrease psychological challenge?
4. How do my coaching behaviours influence the goalkeeper psychologically?
5. How can I review psychological development alongside technical and tactical development?
Michael Cooke is a Coach Developer with a strong track record of supporting learning and development for coaches at all levels. He holds an MSc in Performance Coaching and is currently completing a PhD in Psychological Safety in Sport. He is a published author in academic literature with a focus on coach development and sport psychology. He has acted as a learning facilitator on the UEFA Pro Diploma for the Irish FA and has facilitated on the UEFA A Goalkeeping course. Michael has almost 20 years experience facilitating coach development programmes across a range of sports, most recently supporting high performance coaches across 11 sports at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Michael has a strong interest in the psychological aspect of coaching and aims to bring this to life in the CPD workshop.
This CPD opportunity is online and will take place on Microsoft Teams, it will not be recorded or available to view afterwards.
Spaces are limited, once we reach our maximum numbers, the course will close and you will be unable to register.
Coaches who hold valid UEFA A, UEFA Pro, UEFA Goalkeeping B and UEFA Goalkeeping A Licences will receive 5 CPD credits on completion once payment has been received.
After you have been approved to the course, a payment link will be sent separately.