SIDEKICK TECHNE

Soccer training machine, namely, a manually and automatically fed sports ball feeder and server for accelerating and delivering sports balls with user determined trajectory, speed, spin, and distance with a ball returning mechanism and an electronic target that registers and records ball contact with the target; soccer training system; automated ball serving system for serving sports balls, recording any served balls that contact a target when directed to the target by a player, and returning the served balls whether or not they have contacted the target or were contacted by the player