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Tip Of The Week
19.4 THE ROLE OF THE TEAM CAPTAIN
The role of the team captain is not defined in the Laws of the Game. The captain usually wears an armband and is responsible
to the referee for his or her team, but has no special rights or privileges.
By practice and tradition, certain duties fall upon the team captain:
*to see that the referee's decisions are respected by the captain's teammates and by team officials;
*to counsel a teammate who may be reluctant to leave the field at a substitution but neither the captain nor the referee
may insist that the player leave;
*to represent his or her team at the coin toss to determine which direction the team will attack to begin the game (and
subsequent overtime periods) or which team will take first kick in kicks from the penalty mark;
*to be the team representative to whom the referee must go to obtain the name or names of members of that team who must
be withdrawn from participating in kicks from the penalty mark in order to match the size of the opposing team (which has
fewer players on the field before the kicks from the penalty mark begin as a result of injury or misconduct).
(See Advice For Referees on the Referee Page)
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In The Box
Keepers-Diving Shape
This activity requires one goalkeeper, and one server with a ball. The second step in the progression, requires a second
server with a second ball.
The keepers starts lying on their side, on the ground as if they have landed from a dive. The server is approximately
3 yards away with the ball at their feet. The keeper is concentrating on maintaining proper diving shape while lying on the
ground.
The server plays the ball directly to the goalkeeper's hands so that the keepers catches the ball in the same position
they would be in on a dive. The keeper then rolls the ball back to the server to play the same ball back again. The whole
time, the keeper is concentrating on doing a few different things. First, the keeper must maintain proper diving shape at
all times. Second, the keeper must catch the ball properly with their hands slightly beyond the ball. Third, the keeper
must watch the ball at all times.
The keeper would do this activity for 20 balls a row, and then would switch over to their other side and do 20 more balls.
The next step in this progression, would be for the keeper to start on their stomach. There is a server to the keepers
right with the ball and another server to the keepers left with the ball. Each server is approximately 3 yards from the keeper.
The keeper rolls from their stomach onto the side to face the server to their right, the server plays the ball in, the
keeper catches the ball using proper technique at all times. The keeper then rolls the ball back to the server, rolls back
to their stomach, and continues rolling so they are now facing the player on the left who serves the ball, the keeper makes
a save and plays the ball back. This is done 20 times to each side real quickly and then the new keeper would start.
The servers must concentrate on playing the ball to the proper spot which is to the keepers hands but also forcing the
keeper to extend to catch the ball at all times. While the server wants to force the keeper to go quickly, it's more important,
for the keepers to do everything properly. The keeper must maintain body shape at all times, catch the ball properly, and
watch the ball all times.
This is a great activity to work on body shape while diving and also catching.
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