Cross pollination is all the rage in sports these days as coaches and players ask themselves, “What can we learn from the skills and practices of other sports?” It’s particularly relevant to football given that there are so many similar yet different sports played around the world, such as rugby union and Australian Rules Football.
These sports require the same sorts of skill sets as a football player, but the way they are achieved and trained for is different due to a different emphasis on skills and environment.
Here, we look at four different sports and what skills they can teach footballers.