€20
First support
The first step. Every contribution counts towards distribution.
The book
Football · DanceFreedom
228 pages written by Didier Mayemba, carrying onto the goalkeeper’s position what the company has been working on since 2006: movement before gesture.
Méthode Mayemba
Goalkeeper Edition
In 2016, a university dissertation set out the founding thesis: a goalkeeper has the same fundamental abilities as a breaker. Two UEFA B licences, hundreds of sessions on the pitch and years of experiment later, the Mayemba Method was born of that evidence.
This book is not a technical manual. It is the story of a transformation: that of a goalkeeper who discovers that movement always precedes gesture, that the body understands before the mind, and that performance is born first of the quality of movement.
It was born of a hard fact on the ground: in amateur football, the goalkeeper’s position is still the one that gets the least specific time. Resources are counted, slots are limited, coaches trained for the position are still rare. And yet it is of her that the most is expected.
Because before being a position, goalkeeping is an art of movement. Back cover
What is inside
Five pillars, forty-seven chapters
The book moves through fourteen parts. Five of them stand on their own: they are the pillars of the method, built one spread at a time.
- What mattersWhat a goalkeeper looks at, and in what order — from distant danger to the one-on-one, then the restart.
- 49/51 · Ready at the right momentA state, not a stance: committed and available at once. “She was not slow. She was not ready.”
- The extension of the handThe glove extends the hand; the hand extends the movement. Ten acts on gesture, sensation, equipment and endurance.
- The body protects the mindYou do not lose your technique first: you lose your availability first. Confidence is a consequence, not a starting point.
- L’ÉVIDANSE — the proofSix phases, from the ground to the flight, where dance and the save turn out to be the same body. This is where the book meets the stage.
Around these five pillars: planning, prevention, nutrition, performance psychology, video analysis, a solo programme without a coach, club implementation, certification, a multilingual glossary. And seven breathing spreads, which prove nothing and simply let you look.
Three editions
The same book, in three languages
French, Swedish, English. The three editions share the same pagination, the same images and the same spreads: a club in Linköping and a club in Sarcelles work from the same object, page for page.
Support
Putting the book in their hands
Contributions pay for two things: printing the three editions, and equipping amateur clubs and under-resourced structures — those with no specific coach for their goalkeepers. Close to seventy goalkeepers have been supported since 2021; a book reaches where one person cannot.
€50
Support for distribution
One book goes to a goalkeeper or a club that would not have bought it.
€150
Club endowment
Enough to equip a staff and its goalkeepers for a whole season.
€500
Committed partner
Several clubs equipped, or a whole district.
€1,000
Distribution partner
One edition, one territory, one language. Foundations, companies, public bodies.
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La Cie Mayemba is a declared non-profit association under the French law of 1 July 1901. Every donation is receipted.
A donation gives nothing in return: that is what distinguishes it from an order or a pre-order of the book.
The book itself
Where the book stands
The book is written, typeset and ready to print: 228 pages, in three languages. What remains is the longest part — gathering the means to print it and put it into circulation. That is the project under way, and what the contributions are for.
Supporting distribution is not ordering a copy. The contributions above are donations: they pay for printing and for equipping clubs, with nothing given in return. They are not an order and give no right to a copy being sent.
No price and no publication date have been settled to date, and this site will announce none before they are. To be kept informed, to reserve a copy or to consider an order for a club, write to the company.
Specifications
- Title
- Méthode Mayemba — Goalkeeper Edition
- Subtitle
- Complete training for women goalkeepers
- Author
- Didier Mayemba Mayimona
- Languages
- French · Swedish · English
- Extent
- 228 pages
- Format
- 165 × 235 mm, paperback
- ISBN
- 979-10-448-0454-9
- Project status
- Written, typeset, ready to print. Funding for printing and distribution is under way.