The problem with our goallkeepers is that they do not receive specialist training sometime until they get to the age of 14-15. This is not good enough, as you become good by repetition and motor memory skills. Also, when you look at the people that train our goalkeepers, you can tell that they concentrate on shot stopping, often neglecting cross ball training, kicking, distribution, and judgment. I was fortunate to have a goalkeeper coach--Kendall Crawford--who now works for the Ministry of Sport. He took Lincoln Philips' goalkeeping book, which I would recommend to any young goalkeeper, and started me from handling the ball correctly, all the way to the very end. That is how we need to train our gaolkeepers. It's not just about shot stopping. As a matter of fact, good positioning often minimizes the need to be diving all over the place. We're producing better goalkeepers, but the pool of qulaity keeprs is not big enough. This hurts us, because it reduces the level of competition, often leading to complacency.