Personal Mentorship
Your goalkeeper development team.
Direct mentorship from Lee, Mark and Shaun Robinson for ambitious goalkeepers who want more than occasional coaching. We analyse your game, guide your development and help you make better decisions about where you go next.
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Your club coach has a job to do. We become an extra team around you.
Most serious goalkeepers already have coaches.
But that doesn't always mean someone is looking at the whole picture.
Your performances. Your technical development. Your physical development. Your training environment. Your opportunities. Your next move. Your long-term pathway.
That's where MDGK Personal Mentorship is different.
We don't replace your existing goalkeeper coach. We work alongside your environment and give you another level of specialist support from three people who are continually looking at your development.
Built for goalkeepers who are serious about where they want to go.
Personal Mentorship is primarily designed for ambitious goalkeepers from around age 14 upwards. You don't need to already be in an academy or professional environment, but you do need to be serious about improving.
For goalkeepers
- You want specific feedback on your own performances
- You want to understand why things happen, not just be told what technique to use
- You want individual training based on what your game actually needs
- You're aiming for academy, college, semi-professional or professional football
- You want experienced people to help guide the journey
For parents
- You know your son or daughter is serious about goalkeeping
- You want expert eyes on their development outside their club environment
- You want honest advice about strengths, weaknesses and next steps
- You want help navigating trials, clubs, opportunities and development decisions
- You want people genuinely invested in the goalkeeper rather than simply selling sessions
We don't just give advice. We continually learn about your game.
Every goalkeeper starts in a different place. That's why the mentorship is built around a continuous development cycle.
Understand the goalkeeper
We learn about your current level, playing environment, ambitions, training, physical development and what you feel you need help with.
Analyse what is actually happening
You send us match and training footage. We look beyond isolated actions and analyse the information, decisions and behaviours behind them.
Set individual development priorities
We identify the areas that can make the biggest difference and create clear priorities rather than trying to improve everything at once.
Shape training around the game
We recommend goalkeeper work, individual exercises, physical development and training ideas based on what we are seeing.
Review, adapt and repeat
New clips give us new information. We review progress, adapt priorities and continue building the goalkeeper over time.
More than online coaching.
You have an ongoing line of communication with MDGK rather than waiting for the next session or scheduled appointment.
Three specialists. Three viewpoints. One plan.
One of the biggest strengths of MDGK has always been that there are three of us.
We each bring something different to the goalkeeper's development.
Lee brings first-hand knowledge of the football pathway after 15 years in the professional game. Mark connects goalkeeper development with physical preparation through his strength and conditioning background. Shaun leads heavily on goalkeeper analysis, development planning and connecting what happens in games back to training.
But the real value is that we don't work in isolation. We discuss problems together, challenge each other's thinking and combine three viewpoints before deciding what we believe will help the goalkeeper most.
You are not paying for three separate coaches. You're getting three different areas of expertise working together around one goalkeeper.
We've helped goalkeepers at every stage of the pathway.
Over the years we have worked closely with goalkeepers from grassroots football through academy, semi-professional and professional environments.
We won't promise you professional football. Nobody can honestly guarantee that.
What we can do is give you experienced people in your corner, help you improve the areas that matter, guide important decisions and put you in the strongest position possible to progress.
You don't need to live near MDGK to have MDGK in your corner.
The mentorship is designed so geography doesn't have to limit the level of specialist goalkeeper support you can access.
Whether you're in the UK, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia or anywhere else, your match footage can be analysed by MDGK and your development can be continually guided from wherever you play.
For goalkeepers who visit the UK, there may also be opportunities to combine mentorship with in-person MDGK training.
Apply to work directly with MDGK.
We deliberately limit the number of Personal Mentorship goalkeepers we work with because the value comes from genuinely knowing each goalkeeper and their journey.
We'll speak with the goalkeeper and parent first, understand the current situation, ambitions and environment, and decide whether we genuinely believe MDGK can help.
If we don't think we're the right fit, we'll tell you.
A few things families usually ask.
Give your goalkeeper a development team behind them.
Apply and tell us about the goalkeeper. We’ll personally review the application and come back to you with whether we think the mentorship is a good fit and how we could help.
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