Your Goalkeeper Academy is at your side with confidence – as a coaching team, we want to share our knowledge and experience with you and always act as equals. You are your own personality and should live out and improve your individual skills in training.
We support you and your sporting skills.
We speak the language of goalkeepers!
In my professional career, I was very often faced with important decisions where I would have liked to have a trusted person at my side who knew me well, understood the “goalkeeper” and put my goal first.
I founded the Elite Goalkeeper Academy with the motivation to be the trusted person I would have liked you to be back then.
Together with my team, I want to ensure that your career path is more straightforward than my own.
Thanks to my great expertise in the field of goalkeepers, several ambitious goalkeepers have already made their way from amateur to professional.
To achieve this together with you is my passion.
Michael “Tiger” Kraft:
My personal goal is to support you on your goalkeeping journey so that you push your own limits and constantly improve your goalkeeping game.
Thanks to my active time as a professional goalkeeper and my more than 25 years of experience as a goalkeeping coach (junior and senior level) worldwide, I am able to put myself 100% in your shoes mentally and empathize with every situation.
You should benefit from this and significantly accelerate your performance development.
Some goalkeepers have worked with me to become national goalkeepers, such as Kevin Trapp (Eintracht Frankfurt), Time Wiese (Werder Bremen, among others) or Altay Bayindir (Manchester United).
“Whether professionally or privately, never give up in hopeless moments!
Never give up, but take a positive and active approach to all things in life.
Don’t let anything negative get to me.
I determine my own path to success” – Michael Kraft –
My expertise:
It fills me with pure joy when I succeed in realizing your goals together with you thanks to my knowledge and experience.
“The most striking thing about goalkeeper training at clubs is that the work with young goalkeepers is usually done strictly according to predetermined models. The concept – at the Elite Goalkeeper Academy – of holistic individual support as well as targeted technical and tactical adjustments so that you as a goalkeeper can achieve your personal best possible performance, therefore fits perfectly with my ideas of effective goalkeeper training.”
Expertise:
The person of the TH coach within a team is important.
The goalie-TT relationship is often very special.
Through knowledge and communication, trust is developed, which opens up the protégé’s potential to climb the ladder of success.
Expertise:
Further training VFB Stuttgart and Tanner Speed coordination/jumping power
Trainer :
Experience is the be-all and end-all for a goalkeeper, just as it is for a goalkeeping coach.
Young goalkeepers in particular naturally lack the experience to make the right decisions and apply the right techniques in the many complex situations that arise in goalkeeping.
This is where an experienced goalkeeping coach at your side, who can give you appropriate tips and feedback, can help.
This will help you improve your performance faster and prevent mistakes before they happen.
That’s why I’m at your side and also have an “experienced” eye on the exact execution of the technique.
Expertise:
