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The goalkeeping academy

Training goalkeepers
the way they are trained
at the very top.

The expertise of a specialist shaped at the highest international level — applied to your goalkeeper’s progress.

17 years with the French FA France women’s team 5 World Cups · 2024 Olympics
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Goalkeepers only
One position, nothing else
50 experts
A multidisciplinary staff
5 programmes
From camps to one-to-one work
4 pillars
Technical · tactical · mental · physical
All levels
From first steps to elite
A position being reinvented ”
Training a goalkeeper is not only teaching them to stop a ball. It is teaching them to decide under pressure.
Gilles FouacheFounder of KIPURA

The technical, physical and mental demands on the modern goalkeeper bear no resemblance to those of the past.

KIPURA was born of a simple conviction: the goalkeeper deserves dedicated, structured and consistent support. Very few programmes are genuinely built over time and centred on the goalkeeper’s performance.

We bring together expertise from the pitch, performance, health, analysis and coaching to build pathways suited to every level.

The KIPURA Method

One expertise.
One method. One vision.

A complete approach to the modern goalkeeper, built at the highest level and adapted to every age. Watch, understand, correct, repeat, progress. Four dimensions, never treated separately.

01

Technical

In defence: holding the line, owning the air and the ground. In possession: building play, progressing, breaking lines.

02

Tactical

Communicate, read, decide — faster and faster.

03

Mental

Confidence, handling mistakes, focus: what separates a good session from a good match.

04

Physical

Strong in order to be effective: power, explosiveness and injury prevention serving the technique.

The method at work

One cycle — doing simple things exceptionally well

The KIPURA method rests on one demanding cycle, repeated in every session: watch, understand, correct, repeat — until the right action becomes instinct.

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Watch

Break down the action, the situation and the goalkeeper’s behaviour.

↻ Watch · understand · correct · repeat · progress — the signature of the KIPURA method.
Gilles Fouache, fondateur de KIPURA
The founder

Gilles Fouache

Forty years devoted to one position: goalkeeper.

“I have worked with goalkeepers from grassroots football all the way to the World Cup. Seventeen years with the French Football Federation, the France women’s team, Saudi Arabia’s World Cup qualification, then Tunisia at the 2026 World Cup.

With KIPURA, I pass that standard on to young goalkeepers, to coaches and to clubs that genuinely want to improve.”

17 years · French FANational Technical DirectorateFrance women’s national team 5 World Cups3 European Championships2024 Olympic GamesSaudi Arabia qualification2026 World Cup · Tunisia
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Programmes

A pathway for every goalkeeper

An answer for every goalkeeper, every coach and every club — built around two worlds.

For goalkeepers

01

Development camp

Two days to go deeper into the position, build confidence and develop potential. The fundamentals, with the joy of keeping goal.
For: young goalkeepers aged 10 to 13 · 2 days
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02

Intensive camp

Three days of high-performance immersion. Technique, reading the game, physical, mental, video analysis and an individual report.
For: goalkeepers — 14-17 and adults · 3 days
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03

One-to-one coaching

Tailored support built around your goal: coming back, returning from injury, trials, one specific area to work on.
For: professional goalkeepers or those with a performance plan
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For clubs & coaching staff

04

Club support

Goalkeeping expertise brought into your club, in blocks of 4, 8 or 12 sessions, planned around the level of your goalkeepers.
For: clubs, football schools, academies without a goalkeeping coach
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05

Expert talks

Ten evening talks on the position and on performance, open to everyone.
For: athletes, coaches and enthusiasts
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They trust us

They arrive with an ambition.
They leave with bearings.

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This camp gave me a great deal, mentally as much as technically. Today you see plenty of goalkeepers who play with their feet but forget their main job: protecting their goal. Those details are what make the difference.

In three days I learned a lot, talked a lot and worked a lot. What I take away is that goalkeeping is a position in its own right, and that you have to find the balance between the modern keeper, who plays high and with his feet, and the one who above all protects his goal.

Top-level coaches, facilities and equipment of a professional club: everything is there to improve. In three days you can take a real step up.

Yann Amougou, gardien de but, après son stage intensif KIPURA Yann AmougouGoalkeeper · 3-day intensive camp

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