Grêmio adopt goalkeeper drill with keepers taking shots | OneFootball

According to Globo.com, Luís Castro’s staff at Grêmio have introduced a different goalkeeper drill, with the keepers themselves striking shots for team-mates to save.

The aim is to free goalkeeper coach Daniel Correia to watch technique exclusively, which he believes helps identify improvements more precisely.

Correia still takes shots during sessions, but usually only when testing a specific movement from an individual goalkeeper. He also records the work on camera, as predecessor Mateus Famer did before leaving at the start of the year.

Aged 49, Correia is a former goalkeeper and one of six members of Castro’s backroom team. As a player he featured for Amarante, Valouguense, Balselhense and Sobrado in Portugal.

His coaching career includes Vitória de Guimarães, Sporting, AEK Athens and Venezuela’s national team under José Peseiro, with whom he had also worked at Sporting. He linked up with Luís Castro at Al-Duhail in 2021, then followed him to Botafogo, Al Nassr and Al Wasl.

Castro’s staff also includes assistants Vítor Severino and Pedro Mané, performance analyst Nuno Baptista, and fitness coaches Nuno Cerdeira and Roberto Júnior, known as Betinho. Luís Castro has also brought Portuguese head scout Hugo Ribeiro to lead data analysis.

Source: Globo.com