Monthly Archive for May, 2016

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Bayern had the wrong mental approach to the game

It’s necessary to start from the statistics very positive of Bayern against Atletico Madrid: 33 shots to 7, 72% to 28% ball possession, 23 cross at 2. Just reading them makes clear the performance of the Allianz Arena match. Bayern at times uncontrollable, with infernal pace, constant pressure and beautiful overlays on the players. Cross, insertions, shots from outside by two bombers as Alaba and Vidal. If not for 90 minutes, at least 75. Still Atletico remained in the game, suffering enormously and hitting at the first good opportunity.
In the two semi-finals Bayern has shot 52 times but scored only two goals. From the mental point of view the Bayern competitive fury was an obstacle to the completion of his actions, which is to make goal to the opponents. This occurs when a team is a prisoner of the beauty of its game, which turns more into an aesthetic action than in one centered on getting a particular advantage by goals scored. It means that the players have failed in determination and perseverance in reaching the aim to be qualified for the final. Certainly it’s nice to enjoy the public and produce a beautiful game but they have to win the matches that are decisive. This was the attitude on the field and the team was wrong.

#RoadtoRio: try the impossible

A little more than three months before the start of the Olympics
we reflect at these words by Hermann Hesse
So that you realize the possible, you must continue to try the impossible
Be totally committed to that for which we have been trained at the best it’s not easy. The athletes have to be able to experience an existential condition in which perceive, regardless of the race situations and their current physical and mental conditions, that they will finish the competitive commitment at their best. This is the toughness, it allows to be determined to fight for the win even when it seems impossible.