Goalkeeper - Any ideas to dio this?

Hi, i am trying to add a goalkeeper to my game, who should be a character with triggerzones attached to his hands in order to grab the ball. So i came up with the idea of adding triggers in front of the goal in order to determine the position of the ball and then playing a predefined animation in order to jump towards the ball.

Any ideas how to do this better or with better performance?

Greetings