Monthly Archive for April, 2022

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Juventus-Inter

What this game says.

  • 5 minutes to shoot a penalty. Final recovery in the 1st half of 10 minutes. ù
  • The goal is a rare event and then suffer it has an effect on the mood of the team.
  • Who marks even if in undeserved way acquires endured more confidence and challenge more the adversary.
  • Soccer is the only team sport where you can play very well compared to the opponent and lose. This does not happen in basketball and volleyball.
  • It is difficult to understand the referee’s decisions: a player on the ground holds another player by the leg preventing him from moving and is not warned.
  • Absolute level of competitiveness between the two teams.
  • The winner is the one who did enough but with continuity and solidity. It is confirmed that in soccer when you waste too many goal occasions, you risk to lose for an episode in favor of the opposing team.

Coaching: 10 ideas for thinking

Today at the Master of Sport Psychology we talked about training with Prof. Bruno Ruscello, Tor Vergata University.

What we learned:

  1. The ability to listen, guide and give constructive feedback for a coach is important.
  2. Too often, youth coaching is left to inexperienced coaches.
  3. The invisible aspect of coaching is just as important as the visible aspect.
  4. The invisible aspect is about the lifestyle of the athlete.
  5. The data scientist is an essential role to use at every level of expertise, finding the necessary adaptations.
  6. The coach is a curious person who must continually deepen and broaden his or her skills.
  7. Coaching is getting out of the comfort zone.
  8. For a player, the following are decisive: anticipation, decision-making ability, speed, ability to cooperate.
  9. The coach is a visionary who builds ladders to reach his dreams.
  10. The team game is not the sum of the performance of individuals but the product of their cooperation.

Learn from expert Coaches

Today I want to remember my friend John Salmela with this slide from 2004 on how we can learn from expert coaches.

What do you think?

The Italian sedentariness is serious

These days in the newspapers we continue to talk about how widespread sedentariness is. Here are some slides to understand the problem of this lack of movement.