Focus and collaboration

Mental skills are essential in team sports and they are largely disjointed from the technical and tactical skills. Those most important to me are self-confidence, commitment, concentration and team spirit. The concentration is reltaed at two functions. The first, together to the commitment  can predict the opponent’s game and impose its own. The second, it concerns the ability to stay focused even after an error. Finally, collaboration is essential, and each player must be at the service of others. This applies to everyone, from the stars of the team to the last reserves. These four characteristics are closely related to each other, there is no cooperation without self-confidence and even concentration without commitment. Therefore, the team mentally stronger is not the one has the best players, but the one that gives the best results using the best of the interaction among these psychological dimensions. The mind decides what to do and tells the body how to do it. The audience sees the body of a player to take good action and admires the athlete technique , it does not see, however, the work of the mind, thinking that the body moves only driven in automatic mode. So often in coaching sessions  it is only trained the body without being aware that the movements depend on the invisible work of the mind, which should be further supported in this effort.