Skills Training
Welcome to play the Villa Way, Aston Villa’s community football programme. The programme aims to ensure that everyone can participate in football and improve their performance no matter what their skill level or ability.
Backwards
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Backwards
A good defender needs to know how to track back. Watch the video and download the printable PDF to improve your ability to go backwards.
Download How To?Football Skills Averages
Graph guide
understanding the skills graphs
Step 1:
Start at the bottom of the graph, and put your mouse cursor over the year group you are in. As a guide, year 3 students are aged 7-8, year 6 aged 10-11 and year 10 aged 14-15.
Step 2:
You should then move the cursor upwards from the year group until you hit a blue line if you are female or green line if you are male.
Step 3:
Now move the cursor to the left-hand side until you reach a number. This number is how many seconds someone the same age as you took to complete this skill test.
Step 4:
Now have a look at the skills videos and downloads above to see how you can improve your results.
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