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Aston Villa stopper Emi Martinez plans to become the best goalkeeper in the WORLD - as his coach reveals Argentina star has set daily targets to help turn fortunes around under new boss Steven Gerrard

Emi Martinez is determined to be the world’s best goalkeeper and is using performance targets pinned up in his locker to help him on his way.

Aston Villa goalkeeper coach Neil Cutler has revealed how Martinez gets daily reminders of the goals he needs to achieve in order to fulfil his ambitions.

‘He is so driven,’ Cutler said of Martinez, 29. ‘In his locker in the changing room, we've got lots of different things that he has to tick off.

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Emi Martinez is using performance targets pinned up in his locker to help him improve

‘He has to keep this many clean sheets, passing percentage has to be this, has to save this amount of penalties.