The Football Association Sports Medicine and Sports Science Department is actively involved in research and education programmes to improve the level of care for the injured football player; minimise the risk of football injury by improving our understanding of the risk factors and mechanism of football injuries; and to enhance football performance by improving methods of preparation.
The Sports Medicine and Sports Science Department has a track record of organising large scale football injury The Footbonaut is a very new technology introduced which helps with your first touch and reactions. The Footbonaut has one person standing in the middle of the square with 64 different grids. Four of those grids are spread out and randomly shoot out balls which the player has to control and pass into the correct flashing green LED grid. More specifically, a loud beep will occur from somewhere around the room and the player will turn to the noise - which resembles a team mate calling the player - and will receive the ball and in as least touches as possible try to pass the ball into the flashing green grid.