Injuries, wounds and damages are a part of every sport as well as everyday life. To improve the quality of athlete performance and the quality of life and overall health of “average” people, respectively people who are not a part of competitive sports we have to reduce the amount and intensity of injuries which happen. This is done by prevention. Prevention (from lat. Praevenire = preventing) symbolizes a set of measures used to stop any unwanted occurrences, like in this case the injuries of the upper extremities in football goalkeepers. In addition will be added a number of prevention strategies for upper extremity injuries in football goalkeepers but unfortunately football is a very unpredictable and physically demanding game which makes some of the injuries unavoidable. If the injury occurs the only way to speed up the process of recovery is initiating a proves of rehabilitation respectively kinesitherapy. Kinesitherapy is a method of physiotherapy which applies movement for the cause of healing and preventing damages and injuries. Football has without a doubt, greatly improved from the point of physical fitness in the twenty years. Sadly, that physical fitness is easily jeopardized with injuries that “leave” the athletes out of the field on periods from a few weeks to even a year. The goal of this paper is to determine the most effective prevention programs for preventing muscular and ligamentous structure injuries and, in case of the most prevalent injuries of the upper extremities the most effective processes of recovery, respectively kinesitherapy of the injuries themselves and their prevention.