However, Hoffard also insists it will be achieved only if young players never lose sight of the fundamentals that have always defined the position.
With more than 30 years of coaching experience spanning youth football, college soccer, Major League Soccer and United States national team camps, Hoffard has watched the game evolve from every angle. Today, through his Pennsylvania-based ONE on ONE Goalkeeping academy, he continues to develop the next generation while helping educate coaches across the country.
Speaking to Football Presse, Hoffard said modern goalkeepers must embrace football's tactical evolution without forgetting their primary responsibility.
"In my opinion, the number one objective or role for a goalkeeper is to keep the ball out of the back of the net," he said.
"Obviously there has been an evolution over the last 10 years where the goalkeeper is starting to utilise their feet a lot more.
"One hundred percent I agree with it. It's a huge piece of our game right now.
"My only stipulation is I think there's a risk versus reward."
Hoffard has worked alongside some of football's biggest names, serving as goalkeeper coach at the New York Red Bulls when Thierry Henry, Tim Cahill and Rafa Márquez were among the club's stars, while also coaching the MLS All-Star team that faced Manchester United before travelling to London to win the Emirates Cup.
Despite operating at the highest level, his coaching philosophy has remained remarkably simple.
"I was never that super-athletic person that could just go out on the field and be great," Hoffard admitted.
"Everything I accomplished was because of hard work.
"It was those simple things - footwork, handling, catching and holding the ball.
"That's my bread and butter.
"There's no negotiating."
Explaining what separates the very best goalkeepers, Hoffard offered an insight that has become central to his coaching.
"Within this bubble - the bubble of our body - using your feet, your mobility and quality hands, that's everything for goalkeeping.
"Everything else stems from that."
It is the same philosophy he has passed on to hundreds of young keepers through ONE on ONE Goalkeeping, a programme that has become one of the United States' most respected specialist goalkeeper academies.
Looking back, Hoffard believes beginning at grassroots level made him a far better coach than if he had chased the professional game immediately.
"I started off coaching kids in my local community whenever I had the chance," he said.
"Looking back, that was probably the best thing I ever did because I really got to understand what worked and what didn't work.
"I started at the grassroots with young kids, and that's a different beast than working in the professional game.
"I was fortunate to climb the ladder."
That gradual journey also shaped his outlook on persistence.
Many aspiring coaches, he believes, underestimate how much patience is required to reach the top.
"There were many doors slammed on me," Hoffard reflected. "You put in a résumé, you go to an interview and you don't get it.
"There were many times where you think, 'Is it time to stop?'
"But I just kept going because this is my passion.
"Those opportunities don't come when you want them. You just don't know when they're going to come."
As football increasingly demands goalkeepers who can dictate possession, Hoffard insists common sense should always outweigh fashionable ideas.
"Everybody wants to play like Barcelona," he said. "That's great.
"But what if you don't have the players to play it? Why build out just for the sake of building out if there's a big risk?
"I'm all for playing with your feet.
"But I'd rather lose the ball 60 yards from goal than lose it 10 or 15 yards from goal."
For Hoffard, another often-overlooked quality is leadership.
One lesson from his own playing career continues to shape everything he teaches today.
Early in his career, he found himself playing behind experienced World Cup veterans and admitted he initially felt intimidated about organising them.
"I remember thinking, 'You've played in a World Cup. Why do you need me to tell you anything?'" he recalled, while refusing to name the former teammate involved.
"But he came up to me and said, 'I need you to give me information. I need you to be a leader.'
"He even said, 'Come for that cross. I don't care if you absolutely clobber me. If you've got the ball in your hands, I'm fine with that.'
"That changed my whole outlook."
Hoffard realised that leadership from a goalkeeper has nothing to do with reputation.
"It didn't matter if it was Messi on my team," he said."He still needs information.
"If I wasn't able to be a leader and vocalise things, they weren't able to do their jobs properly."
That philosophy now underpins everything Hoffard teaches.
Technique, communication, decision-making and resilience remain the foundations of elite goalkeeping, regardless of how much the game changes around them.
For Hoffard, American goalkeepers do not need to reinvent the position to compete with Europe.
They simply need to master the timeless qualities that have always separated good goalkeepers from great ones.