For many years Michel Guillon has worked with the Chelsea team and its coaches on 'science-based vision management'. With Cech, he developed a Penalty Programme using visual cues, reaction times and statistical analysis to enhance key visual functions in goalkeeping and optimise vision.
As Guillon told delegates at a special session on sports vision at the British Contact Lens Association conference, the strategy worked. Cech had recorded the fastest reaction times of any player he had seen.
Guillon also revealed that the Czech-born goalkeeper is a long-term contact lens wearer (and has never lost a lens).
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