We are a country where most of the boys play football, why? We have 30.000 players without a job.
It’s fine to play football ma dear parents forget that your son becomes a player.
Monthly Archive for March, 2014
Missy Frankiln, swimmer 19 years old, 4 golds to al world championship and 6 at London has won the Laureus World Sports , a foundation that cares to integrate through sport by those who live socially disadvantaged. Her psychological profile is clear from the interview to Emanuela Audisio published by LaRepubblica.
- Before the start – “I get excited , I say finally. I live for that moment, otherwise you train to do?”
- Competitiveness – “I like the fight, fight until the last drop of energy. I am born for sport, maybe I would have chosen the basketball.”
- Sports Extra Life – “I enrolled at Berkeley in psychology … I want to make a freshman, missed the program of the washing machine, eating junk at the bar, having a roommate. Like all normal girls: I get married, children and a family.”
- Fun – ” If you talk about sacrifices, I shot. I have fun and I chose swimming, in fact I drove my mother, who does not know how to float and she is afraid of water.”
- Mental preparation – ” I do not need a psychologist. Since four years I’ve found God and at the end is that win or lose, I feel loved. And I say to myself: God will be proud of me. For this reasn I keep this in mind even those that seem small moments and in the future will become great.”
According to the results of the latest Eurobarometer survey on sport and physical activity, 59% of European Union citizens never or seldom exercise or play sport, while 41% do so at least once a week. Northern Europe is more physically active than the South and East. 70% of respondents in Sweden said they exercise or play sport at least once a week, just ahead of Denmark (68%) and Finland (66%), followed by the Netherlands (58%) and Luxembourg (54%). At the other end of the scale, 78% never do so in Bulgaria, followed by Malta (75%), Portugal (64%), Romania (60%) and Italy (60%).
Arianna Huffington wrote on Republica.it of today emphasizing the need to reduce daily stress derived from the work as the need to improve the quality of life and maintain a health condition. At this regard, it is worth remembering what are the attitudes and behaviors that put at risk the people health and welfare:
- excessive competitiveness,
- accentuation of key words in everyday language, without it needs for this and tend to eat the last words of a sentence,
- concern not to respect the terms of work delivery,
- intolerance towards others and delay,
- eager to receive reinforcements from others and tangible rewards,
- constant state of physical and psychological alert that may lead to aggressive behavior,
- be usually impatient with people and situations,
- sufficiently attuned to the identification of specific targets, because more action-oriented ,
- feeling of guilt while relaxing or resting,
- overly critical toward themselves and others.
They are individuals who usually live their life always with the foot on the accelerator and they do not ever hold back. Although with a lot of energy, always in a hurry, go to the floor and never stop. This is their problem: consider every opportunity to slow down as a waste of time, since they have always focused on the next obstacle. The acceleration of the communication that we are living thanks to the diffusion of the mobile phone, e-mail and social networks, it made them even more prisoners of thisway of life.
Specifically, what are the aspects that most disrupt their health? The ambition, impatience or hostility? Longitudinal studies have found that individuals with high hostility scores, after 20 years from this evaluation had a higher frequency of deaths due to cardiovascular problems than those who had received low scores of hostility.
In addition, it is the association between hostility and cynicism that seems to produce such negative effects on personal wellbeing. The cynicism is explained in terms of mistrust in human nature, in ideals and social conventions.
In confirmation of this interpretation it has been shown that it is possible to work in a highly stressful environment, showing behaviors such as those described but maintaing a good health. This positive condition can be achieved if the people:
- are committed not only to work but also to themselves, family and other values , thus avoiding falling into cynical attitudes,
- believe to exert control over their professional and private life,
- have a tendency to consider the changes in life as a challenge to manage, and not just as problems and concerns.
Alex Zanardi is a great champion in sport and in life and yesterday I heard him speaking in front of an audience of young people. I was touched by two ideas, simple but very evocative.
The first – “We need to synchronize the brain on the desires of the heart” , good idea to explain that we must cultivate our passions rather than suffer the impositions of the environment in which we live. But also puts in evidence that our mind has to play the role of programmer needed to move from simple daydreaming to put ourself in a position to achieve our desire. In this way wishes and reality intertwine, avoiding being crushed by everyday things because they lived as a practical expression of our passion.
The second – An amateur cyclist who meet on the road during a training tells him that he certainly would doped if someone had told him that doing so he would have won the Tour de France and asking for his consent Zanardi replied instead: ” Are you crazy?” He then goes on to say that sport is an opportunity and, for this reason, if we are in a position to win or at least do the best “when does it happen again to you in life to try it alone? And what do you do? With doping you lose this opportunity.”
These are thoughts good for our heart and mind.
Last night it has been played Real Madrid – Barcelona and it was a great game of football. It’s finished 4-3 to Barcelona but such it’s the quality of the players on the field that it could have also finish 6 to 6. They face two different play philosophies, that of Real Madrid centered on the single individuality who can solve in any moments the matches that of Barcelona dominated the chorus of the play. Two teams who wanted to win and then become available to undergo the continuous attacks of the opponents. A game in which the players run, not for sacrifice spirit, but for the need to maintain a high intensity, not to give opponents the time to restart with ease. Maintain high pressure on opponents is an attitude that Barcelona was able to show better than Real Madrid. There were three penalties because the quality of Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Iniesta is such that the defenders had to make a foul to stop them. When two teams made up of so many champions come into the field to win the show is sure, they are players who do not slow down and convey to the public their willingness to take risks, to play ball for the pleasure it gives to do it effectively. It’s certainly their job but they have forwarded that football is their passion and they played with that attitude. Like in children’s matches in which everyone wants to play and score.
The spread of obesity and type-2 diabetes could become epidemic in low-income countries, as more individuals are able to own higher priced items such as TVs, computers and cars. The findings of an international study, led by Simon Fraser University health sciences professor Scott Lear, are published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Lear headed an international research team that analyzed data on more than 150,000 adults from 17 countries, ranging from high and middle income to low-income nations.
Researchers, who questioned participants about ownership as well as physical activity and diet, found a 400 per cent increase in obesity and a 250 per cent increase in diabetes among owners of these items in low-income countries.
The study also showed that owning all three devices was associated with a 31 per cent decrease in physical activity, 21 per cent increase in sitting and a 9 cm increase in waist size compared with those who owned no devices.
Comparatively, researchers found no association in high-income countries, suggesting that the effects of owning items linked to sedentary lifestyles has already occurred, and is reflected in current high rates of these conditions.
“With increasing uptake of modern-day conveniences–TVs, cars, computers–low- and middle-income countries could see the same obesity and diabetes rates as in high-income countries that are the result of too much sitting, less physical activity and increased consumption of calories,” says Lear.
The results can lead to “potentially devastating societal health care consequences” in these countries, Lear adds. Rates of increase of obesity and diabetes are expected to rise as low- and middle-income countries develop and become more industrialized.
Sport is an important field in the lives of many young but only a small number of them will become athletes. For this reason parents, athletes and coaches must be aware that the opportunity to have a successful sport career is absolutely rare. The numbers reported in table show better than any other explanation this situation.
Today the parents play a fundamental role to promote the sport activities of their children. Some questions to reflect on how we educate them:
- I encourage my son to play sports for fun and not to win.
- I exercise or movement with my son.
- I speak with my daughter the importance of the commitment regardless of the outcome.
- I show a positive and stable mood in talking about sports with my daughter.
- I accept that my son has ideas and desires different from mine.
- I avoid criticizing during the competition.
- I show me depressed or angry when she loses and happy when she wins.
- I am firmly convinced that his happiness is the most important thing and not my expectations.
- I ask “What do you think about …?” or I tell her immediately what I think is right.
They are all young people under 30 who have a substantial following on the internet and who face the most diverse subjects. From the first classified Farea al_Muslim, Yemen 24 years old, who spoke against the drones that destroyed his village to the United States Senate, to Mosa’ab Eishamy, Egypt 23 years old, with his photos on the victims of the uprising in Cairo, to Dina Toki-O, 24 years, designer of the women Muslim fashion, to Cara Allison, 28 years, producer and journalist of video games. These are just a few of these guys, which is located on the TheGuardian. They are examples of entrepreneurship, courage, creativity, desire to be helpful and make themselves known. Examples for all those that are standing still.
