In football game there are many tactical solutions regarding beating the defence and scoring a goal. The main focus of an attacking team is to transfer a ball to attacker who is the closest to goal so the team has the biggest chance of scoring a goal. Considering the closest route to a goal is trough middle of a field, defence has to protect it the most. Together with the defence, goalkeeper as the last player has special tasks that can be positively influenced by training. With importance of multi layered training, by doing such work, situational training can be combined with development on technical and tactical areas of the game in fun way so that is appropriate for all the generations. In football game goalkeepers’ position especially stands out with its technical and tactical requests. Modern day goalkeeper should have highly developed level of specific goalkeeper technique, but in the modern day more emphasises is on tactical part of the game. Almost every coach by now sees the opportunities that such goalkeeper brings to the game, with its ability to control whole half of the pitch, both attacking and defensive wise. Paper consist of two parts: first being differences between the central zones and their specifications with goalkeepers’ tasks among the zones and second part about training methods and examples of training exercise to work on defensive actions when opponent is in central zones. The goal of this paper is to show the role of a football goalkeeper in defensive plays. The main part of this paper is about positioning goalkeeper in his box when opponent is in the possession of a ball and is located in central zones of a football field.