MATCH Magazine - FA Skills - How To Catch Crosses!

[rayhan347]

the keeper's face scares me

[bannerkille]

The Knees man!!!!! where is the Knees, you guys are no different from the ones who call football ""Soccer""!!!!

[HahaGourds]

The first one is terrible, any attacker would have headed it in before he could catch it.

[legojake1]

FAIL

[MrCadders98]

When you jump to catch the ball, bring your knee up as you jump

[darylim94]

lol btw...van der sar cant catch crosses

[Nabiboss]

@darylim94 huh, search Youtube, best saves of Edwin Van Der Sar and you'll see... ;)

[darylim94]

@Nabiboss nobody makes a video of vandersars mistakes. but if u watch football u'll know.

taking nothing away form vandersar. hes still an awesome keeper

[Nabiboss]

@darylim94 yeah, he is. oh and i do watch football. :P

[WesleyUithuisje]

Well I've got some problems with the crosses myself aswell. I'm 14 years old, about 180cm, and I'm playing in the B's.

I know how to come out and face the ball, but I'm not sure when I have to come out or not. I've had a cleen sheet for 8 games, but in the last 1, a cross came, and the attacker finished it because I didn't come out.

Do you have some advice for me?

[pero247]

first 2 senntences..me too. I have problems with crosees too.

[quanguyen]

@WesleyUithuisje i guess the major problem is the indecisiveness of the GK. even in the pro-league, you see some GKs committed themselves then backed away from the cross which resulted in the GK being in no-man's land. Generally, if the cross is coming into the 6 yrd box, u should try and claim the cross because thats where most OGs come from (miscommunication between CBs and GKs). Also keep ur eyes on the ball at all time

[rangerocker]

to catch a ball hold out your hands an move them together as it get's closer to you -.-

[stlouisgoalkeeping]

why do they not discuss the techniques of taking the cross properly? should we really be talking about tactics before technique?

[karizma419]

Because they aren't up to stlouis' standard. I admire you, so dedicated, i watch and download all the videos and would love to get trained by you but I live in England... If I do make it in the premiership it'll mostly be because of even though we've never met. The individual training clips are what I'd been wating for and they've helped so much, Thank You. What's your name by the way? And you're e-mail adress too if you don't mind. If you could send it as a message instead of a comment reply.