Engineering:Footbonaut
The Footbonaut is a football training machine which fires balls at different speeds and trajectories at players, who must control and pass the ball into a highlighted square. In addition to honing ball skills, the machine is designed to improve a player's reaction time.[1]
Development
Footbonaut was invented by Christian Güttler in Berlin, Germany.[2] The machine is also described as a robotic cage.[3] The Footbanaut, which costs $3.5 million is as large as an apartment with a cube shape and is capable of firing balls from a range of 360 degrees at different speeds and trajectories toward the training players.[4] The players, who are standing inside a circle, must control the ball and pass it through one of 72 gates.[5]
Mario Götze's winning goal of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final has been credited to his years of practice using Footbonaut.[6] It was reported that the team achieved its highest finish - ninth - in the Bundesliga for five years after using the contraption.[5] There are three clubs currently using Footbonaut in their training. [7]
References
- ↑ Wilson, Jonathan; Hesse, Uli; Lyttleton, Ben; Rabiner, Igor; Fanning, Dion; Montague, James; Horncastle, James; Udoh, Colin et al. (2013-12-09) (in en). The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Eleven. Blizzard Media Ltd. https://books.google.com/books?id=oWLXBQAAQBAJ&q=Footbonaut&pg=PT66.
- ↑ The making of a Fussballwunder, economist.com.
- ↑ Football enters space age with 'Footbonaut', edition.cnn.com.
- ↑ Wahl, Grant (2018-05-01) (in en). Masters of Modern Soccer: How the World's Best Play the Twenty-First-Century Game. Crown/Archetype. ISBN 9780804137065. https://books.google.com/books?id=FsQwDwAAQBAJ&q=Footbonaut&pg=PT16.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Grez, Matias; Thomas, Alex (November 9, 2017). "'Footbonaut': German clubs lead football into the future". https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/07/football/footbonaut-tsg-hoffenheim-julian-nagelsmann-borussia-dortmund/index.html.
- ↑ The making of a Fussballwunder, economist.com.
- ↑ "Meet the Footbonaut, the futuristic pass-master currently firing Borussia Dortmund and Hoffenheim". https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/borussia-dortmund-and-hoffenheim-use-footbonaut-to-hone-their-passing-skills-464313.jsp.
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