The Beautiful Game

  Jurgen Klopp, the man that saved Borussia Dortmund's blushes from the brink of extinction and had them living the dream. Had them playing at the biggest stage in club football. Saw having one hand on the Champions league trophy. And since the March of 2012, the Footbonaut played a massive role in helping him achieve this success. A futuristic approach towards training. An approach to help improve the most basic albeit vital aspects of being a footballer; Passing. The Footbonaut is a 4 sided machine that has shooters on either side. One of the 4 shooters, randomly shoots the ball towards the player who assumeshis position in the centre of the box. The player is required to control theball, look around for one of the 64 highlighted targets and pass the ball accurately anddirectly into it. This whole process is carried out and aperformance score is obtained based on the speed and accuracy of the player andthat is used as a benchmark for further sessions. The Footbonaut help...

Reus : Injury Struck Joachim must quite truly be feeling Low. In spite of watching his ruthless, well-oiled German machine put Armenia to the sword and skewer them with six of the best, the Germany coach’s primary concern was quite obviously the ankle injury to the most vital of cogs in his machine.   Marco Reus . The Dortmund man, a swashbuckling genius capable of magic, or as much magic as German efficiency can permit, saw his World Cup dream shatter to pieces a heart-wrenching 6 days before the grand event. Germany fans all over the world, and the gaffer himself, must be ruing the fact that the man with quite possibly the most immaculate hair in all of football was not quite as careful with his ankle. This brings us to an interesting, if rather unhappy, turn of events in the build up to this world cup. Several players, each fantastic talents in their own right, will be absent from the sojourn in Brazil and won’t be giving us a chance to sashay to their samba. Wor...