See how our eye-tracking technology is helping Puskás Akadémia FC goalkeepers react faster, position smarter, and stop more shots.
A partnership with Szabolcs Balajcza and Péter Molnár, professional goalkeepers’ coaches, to enhance goalkeeper performance through improved situational awareness and anticipation.
Szabolcs and Péter, both former professional goalkeepers, have built a reputation for shaping talent at the highest level. Their coaching has helped develop two former protégés into international prospects: Ármin Pécsi, who signed with Liverpool FC, and Balázs Tóth, who plays for Blackburn Rovers.
Modern football is faster than ever. For goalkeepers, reacting is no longer enough. At the elite level, the difference between a good keeper and a great one lies in the ability to read the game, anticipate threats, and position themselves before the shot is taken.
Young goalkeepers often have the physical tools — but accelerating their cognitive development is key to helping them recognise danger earlier and make smarter decisions under pressure.
Over the course of a focused 3-month pilot, we embedded our eye-tracking technology into the academy's goalkeeper training sessions. Working closely with experienced coaches — Szabolcs Balajcza, István Mitring, and Péter Molnár — we're exploring how real-time visual data can help young goalkeepers develop faster and more effectively.
Their decades of top-level playing and coaching experience ensure our technology supports — rather than disrupts — the academy's proven training methods.
This isn’t happening in a lab. We’ve integrated our eye-tracking system directly into live, high-intensity sessions, capturing data during:
This allows us to observe how goalkeepers process complex situations in real time — and pinpoint the exact moments where early recognition can change the outcome of a play.
We’re not just tracking where goalkeepers look — we’re focusing on when they recognise threats: reading an attacker’s body language, spotting unmarked runners, and adjusting positioning before the shot.
Eye-tracking data is powerful, but without context, it’s just numbers. Academies already use GPS trackers, heart rate monitors, video analysis, and performance metrics from every angle. What makes the difference isn’t more data— it’s the right collaboration. That’s why our partnership with the coaching team is central. Their expertise helps us identify which visual patterns truly matter for performance — not just which ones look interesting on a report.
Our goal isn’t to chase the latest tech trend or add another dashboard. It’s to create a genuine exchange where technology reveals what elite goalkeepers see — and coaches translate that into training methods that actually work.
Together, we’re turning visual data into actionable insights — identifying what top performers do differently, and designing drills to help others adopt those same habits.
Visual patterns of elite goalkeepers. So far, the most promising young goalkeepers consistently demonstrate:
Working inside a live training environment has highlighted key requirements:
As an early-stage technology company, this kind of real-world feedback is critical. We don’t believe in testing in controlled labs — we build for where performance actually happens: on the pitch.
Based on these insights, we’re developing new training protocols that blend eye-tracking with traditional goalkeeper coaching. These sessions aim to help goalkeepers:
The early success of this project has already attracted attention across Europe. We’ve begun discussions with Borussia Mönchengladbach, one of Germany’s most respected clubs, about bringing these methods into their academy. This partnership represents something very different from typical sports tech implementations.
Instead of delivering dashboards full of metrics that coaches already have in abundance, we’re creating a genuine exchange: technology reveals what elite goalkeepers see, while coaches turn that insight into real on-field improvements.
This isn’t about replacing coaching intuition with algorithms. It’s about giving coaches a new lens to understand their players’ decision-making processes — and trusting their expertise to turn that into better outcomes on the pitch.
The future belongs to goalkeepers who can see the game before it happens.
Our work with Szabolcs Balajcza and Péter Molnár is helping make that future a reality — one save at a time.
Interested in bringing visual intelligence to your academy?
Contact us to learn more about our goalkeeper development programmes and partnership opportunities.
