The "How"

How exactly will this be done? The key components and milestones along the way of this 52 week journey include:

ARTON’S MODELLING OF EACH PLAYER

This involves the following phases:

Skills capture

Indirect access to players. This involves Arton modelling from high quality footage of the players.
Direct access to players. Arton visiting training sessions and games to observe the players in action.
Direct meeting with players. Arton meeting the genius players he is to model would increase the quality of his skill capture.

Practice to mastery

This phase involves Arton practicing his impersonations of the players in increasingly more realistic environments, until he is able to perform at the top level with the same skill as the players he is modelling. This will involve:

Solo skill practice
Skills practice with training mates in ever more realistic game situations
Practice in competitive futsal training/games
Practice in 11-a-side training/games

CHOICE OF MODEL

Arton will choose which players he will model from a long-list he has compiled. His decisions will be partially based upon the level of access he can get to each player. Given access to (for example) six players, Arton would divide his year up into six portions, with the first two representing 10% each, the second two 15%, the fifth 20% and the last 30%. This allows for the following; say Arton models Ibrahimovic first, Robinho second, etc. By the sixth player, he is still practicing his models of all first 5 players, with least emphasis on the first, Ibrahimovic. So, this last portion is longest as it is spent perfecting the first 5 models and picking up number 6.

MEETINGS WITH THE EXPERTS

NLP and Feldenkrais experts are based abroad (US and US/Israel respectively) and teach worldwide. Arton will meet with these experts at various points during the year, at times in the UK and times in other locations.
Meetings with UK based associates more regular, depending on their exact role (for example, training with conditioning experts will take place 6 days per week for the duration of the year, where as physio meetings dictated by Arton’s physical state).

ARTON’S PERSONAL JOURNEY

Throughout the project, Arton will experience the ups and downs of his training and modelling, his body and diet transforming, his personal life changing and his status as a public figure growing, as well as many other surprising events. This will all be caught by a camera crew, in a personal video diary format and by the website's blog.

THE END TRIAL

Arton’s skills will be ultimately put to the test by trialling with an elite professional club, with the attention of the football community on him.