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Carlo Ancelotti’s winning mentality at the service of Brazil

Published on July 6, 2023 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: Ancelotti, Brasile, Vincere.

Carlo Ancelotti will be the next technical commissioner of Brazil, in a country where soccer is experienced as a religious faith and defeats are a national mourning. Will he be able to express his way of working even in this environment where it is normal to think that the task of the national soccer team is to express the best soccer and win the World Cup?

It is a feat that I think fills with pride those who face it as director of this team in a country where soccer is everything and at the same time scares because you are called upon to achieve the only result that can make Brazilians happy, to win after more than 20 years since the last success. Ancelotti with his pragmatic doing will also try here to follow his style of work that is based on 9 characteristics. Adjustments will probably be necessary because coaching a club is obviously different from coaching a national team, which is also the most iconic in world soccer.

Educate the team to pursue victory through offensive and creative play
Fostering the development of a positive work environment
Build a strong team spirit by stimulating a high capacity for sacrifice and mutual commitment
Fostering in each individual a sense of responsibility (evaluated on the basis of his or her actions and behaviors)
Protect the tradition and principles of the club
Working to provide continuity for the Club’s successes
Compete for all major trophies
Build a clear identity and style of play that takes into account the Club’s tradition
Build good relationships among the various work teams

The key words are: educate, environment, spirit, responsibility, Club tradition, identity, relationships, work and compete. It is an approach centered on focusing on engaging the whole environment and caring for interpersonal relationships. In this way, group values, understood as Club principles and identity, team cohesion, and a sense of responsibility among players and staff, are enhanced and continually nurtured. It is on these foundations that the work is based and team spirit is kept high during the long and intense competitive soccer season and in all competitions in which they participate. In particular, the team must become dominant on the field, playing without fear, showing personality and character for the purpose of taking collective responsibility for developing an offensive game.

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The fragile mood of the Italian volleyball team

Published on October 14, 2022 in Allenatori, Calcio, Corsa, Generale, Giovani, Mental coaching, Olimpiadi, Stress, Tennis and Tiro a volo. 0 Comments Tags: Brasile, Mazzanti, pallavolo, umore.

“It hurts,” says women’s Italian national volleyball team coach Davide Mazzanti at the end of the match lost to Brazil in the semifinals of the world championships. “We realized from the start that it was going to be a tiring match for us; even in the difficulties however we had a chance to turn the match around, but there is no doubt that that final third set at the psychological level cut us off a bit. In the fourth set in fact we did not come back on the court with the right lucidity, with the set we also lost the awareness that we could stay ahead of them. Tonight’s was a match in which we should have chosen our shots well and instead we always waited too long. It will be difficult on Saturday because it is not the final we would have liked to play; now we have some time to look at each other and go on the court to do ours.”

This assessment allows us to understand what should be meant by psychological pressure when playing absolute level games. Even just a mistake like Egonu’s in the final of the third set that would have allowed Italy to go 2-1 can have a deadly negative effect cut the legs off as Mazzanti said. These facts tell us how high the level of psychological stress teams experience and how the mental balance can be broken by individual episodes.

This is the beauty of absolute level sports not only the quality of the game but how much this is determined by the psychological condition which in turn can change as a result of individual episodes. Everything can change in an instant and it is extremely difficult to know how to react and not suffer these moments. The solution goes beyond training, mental preparation and having already played matches at this level. We need players who can convey confidence and encouragement continuously and with intensity, because if it is true that individual episodes change the mood of the team, then it can also be in a positive sense and, therefore, someone has to take this responsibility.

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Brazil’s tragedy

Published on July 10, 2014 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: Brasile, effetto alone, Germania, mondiali 2014.

The defeat of Brazil and the reactions that have occurred around the world show that it was not just a football game. If you do not start from this conviction you cannot understand the pain it has caused. I have worked with athletes who lost the Olympics when it was supposed they had to win and some of them have never come back to the success, others have lived through four successive years growing inside them just an idea, that of redemption. Apparently iBrazil-Germany was a game like many others, but what it changes in these situations is the meaning of the match. It ‘s likethe difference between making a run in the plains and do the same at the 5000m, the distance is the same but everything is different: if you’re not prepared to deal with the difficulties involved you crash to the ground after 10m. In Brazil, the entire country has stopped, the social protests broke down and all are united in supporting the team with extreme passion. Team that has melted like snow in the sun, without knowing and willing to respond to the first German goal. The sin of which are stained lies in having thought to be what they were not, it is a sin of presumption that first made the coach. The second was to believe that Neymar was the leader of the team, maybe he is a champion, he definitely is not a leader. And a team with no leader cannot function rather swerves. A team without a boss can never win, because it does not know how to deal with difficult times. All this without taking into consideration the low technical level of many players. It was a losing proposition that only the emotional excitement lived by the Brazilian had managed to hide until yesterday.

It is in fact determined to Brazil around a huge halo effect of which also the media has been victims , which it has been manifested in continuing to say that this team, certainly was not as strong as in the past, but it was still Brazil. This team reminded me instead the movie reconstructions, from the front they look like the real ones but going back, we realize that they are cardboard constructions, and that there is nothing behind the facade. Now Brazil need a new generation of players who have not experienced in the pitch this tragedy and who wants to play for fun and to stay together, which are the best reasons to manage the emotion to play for the Brazilian knowing that the world is expecting that you always win.

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In soccer the teams have to earn fortune

Published on July 2, 2014 in Allenatori, Calcio and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: Argentina, Brasile, fortuna, mondiali 2014.

According Oronzo Pugliese, football coach in the 70/80, the fortune of a team consisted in having the most talented players in the world. Brazil and Argentina won with the help of luck the two matches against Chile and Switzerland. In this case with a daring parallel with the thought of Machiavelli, it can be said that luck is the power exerted by the strongest. For this reason the fortune is not so blind as it is usual to say, the stronger catch it on themselves. But they must also to know how to earn it, not surprisingly Argentina did a lot more shots on goal than Switzerland and Brazil won at the penalties having a better goalkeeper. It’s also clear that luck occurs when the two teams did not demonstrate a clear superiority of either of the two. More than any other sport, in football the result is well suited to be influenced by luck because the score can be determined by a lightly, accomplished in a given time by the behavior of a single player. It’s ‘the case of Di Maria, one of the best in the pitch, he did a fault in a defensive action just a minute after scoring the opening goal for Argentina. From this lightness it has been developed the action that led to the pole hit by a Swiss player, punishable by a subsequent rebound on the leg that put the ball out of a few centimeters. In other words, the sin of an individual may fall heavily on the team. This is football, a sport in which you can win for the action of a single but just as easily a single behavior may lead to defeat. Therefore, in a game that is spread across many individual episodes, to attribute the result to the luck does not make sense; usually the match has won by the team that created most episodes to score, at the opponents remain the poles taken, emphasizing their competitiveness in the field but not the consitency in the pursuit of victory with the heart and the mind. Read it also on The Huffington Post.

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Team love tattoed on the body

Published on June 28, 2014 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: Botafogo, Brasile, Calcio, Delneri Martins Viana, Tatuaggi.

Retired soldier Delneri Martins Viana describes himself as Rio de Janeiro side Botafogo’s “most fanatical” supporter and he certainly looks the part, with his body covered in no less than 83 tattoos depicting the sporting love of his life.

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Italy gets out from the problems and wins

Published on June 15, 2014 in Allenatori, Calcio and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: Brasile, Calcio, Inghliterra, Italia, mondiali.

We are like that, you have to give us up for dead, we must walk a road full of holes as not win by more than six months and have important players injured (Montolivo, Rossi, Buffon, among others), to be considered as a minor soccer and are no longer competitive before there Germans, Spanish and English teams. At this point, we who are not considered favorites resurrect, we are the best ones to take away from the brink and back up. Our opponents do not understand how this is possible, because this way of doing apparently is not logical for them, on the other hand it’s our way of being. We bow to adversity without break us and we raised we are ready to fight against anyone. The strategy is to hit opponents when they least expect it. Prandelli has organized a team that has managed to keep the ball at a trot while the England was faster in arriving at the net, with a continuous counter-attack on the right led by Candreva and Darmian and a final match based on the classic defense and counterattack. We were not even favored in the world championship of 1982 and 2006, and even then it was a period of great difficulty for our football. Al Pacino in the movie Any Given Sunday to his team in the locker room says that “every fight is the one who is willing to die to win that inch.” It’s an effective metaphor to explain the state of mind that Italy has been able to demonstrate in this first match of the world cup, coming out from the difficulties in which it was found this year with a new organization and the desire to win. Great, now we have to continue. Read it on Huffington Post.

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Please, don’t kill you for a football match

Published on June 11, 2013 in Calcio and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: Argentina, Brasile, Calcio, Eduardo Paes, Rio de Janeiro, suicidio.

“If Argentina beat Brazil, in the final, I’ll kill myself said the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Eduardo Paes, a few days before the start of the FIFA Confederations Cup, the first citizen of Brazilian city is aware of the fact that the Brazilian coach Sabella is among the favorites for the title and that the eventual victory of Argentina in Brazil would be a sport tragedy for the Brazilians, as was that suffered at the 1950 World Cup in home which were defeated Uruguay.

At this regard, in order to avoid this dramatization I suggest you to read what Eduardo Galeano wrote in a chapter of the book “El futbol a sol y sombra” (1995) entitled “The sin of losing”:

“Nel calcio, come in tutte le altre cose, è proibito perdere. In questa fine di secolo, la sconfitta è l’unico peccato che non ha redenzione. Durante il Mondiale del 1994, un pugno di fanatici diede fuoco alla casa di Joseph Bell, il portiere sconfitto del Camerun, e il giocatore colombiano Andrés Escobar cadde crivellato da colpi a Medellìn. Escobar aveva avuto la sfortuna di segnare un autogol, aveva commesso un imperdonabile atto di tradimento alla patria.

Colpa del calcio o colpa della cultura del successo a tutti i costi e di tutto il sistema di potere che il calcio professionistico riflette e integra?”

Think Mr. Eduardo Paes and accept the idea that Brazil can also lose, discovering perhaps as it soothes the pain and brings people together the will to share it on.

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La rabbia di Dunga

Published on July 4, 2010 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: allenatori, Brasile, emozioni, rabbia.

La facilità di Dunga a irritarsi è stata sotto gli occhi di noi spettatori in ogni istante della partita, anche quando Il Brasile era in vantaggio contro l’Olanda. Come si fa a trasmettere fiducia ai propri giocatori quando si è così instabili? Sono convinto che la sua difficoltà a gestire la propria impulsività sia stata una causa decisiva della sconfitta con l’Olanda.

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