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Women footbal in Italy

Published on July 7, 2014 in Calcio, Giovani and Young and Football. 0 Comments Tags: , .

The third place of the Italian U-17  in the World Cup in April in Costa Rica has been a success.  It has been a result  unique in its kind since no national youth soccer had never before won a medal at the world championships. The word success clashes, however, with little resonance that the result has had. The world of female soccer players is an invisible world, which does not help the Italian football to fill sit greatest failure: the presence of  girls playing football. The analysis of this failure goes through the wrong message that affects many girls who want to get closer to football:

  • Value judgments (… if you play football you will become a tomboy!)
  • Gender biases (playing football does not make you be graceful like a little girl should be)
  • The language used on a daily basis with the kids on the football field (… run like sissies, … you are a sissy!).

Italian football is likely to persist in its absence at least until therewill be a change in language, but also the deep understanding that biological sex has little to do with the physical and psychological predispositions for the sport. In spite of this facts , however, the girls on the soccer field could show much of their passion, strength and desire for redemption as demonstrated by these portraits of  the little footballers: women football

 

(by Daniela Sepio)

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The reasons I watch the Football World Cup

Published on June 30, 2014 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Football is a simple game, tribal, the players chase a ball that is the weapon with which to strike the prey that is the goal. It’s a sport that everyone, at least among males, played as children: To have had direct experience allows everyone to understand how difficult it is to send the ball where you want. Teams like if they are combative, if they run and  if at least someone is so good as to make us stand in awe for his play. It’s a game where the goal is a rare event, you do not win 87 – 65 as in basketball, in fact, 1-0, the final score more frequently. For this reason, luck plays an sometimes an important role, as in Brazil-Chile, in which Chile has taken a post of a few minutes from the end and similarly lost on penalties; two posts have eliminated Chile. An inch to the left and the result would have been different. On the other hand, in sport you win and you lose to an inch and this is also a football unwritten rule. We like football also because  the most of us over the age of 40 reminds us when every spare moment was an opportunity to play it: at school during the interval with the eraser or with paper balls, in the backyard , oratory, making the doors to the gardens with the coat. Football is in our memories: from Grande Torino, Rivera and Mazzola, to Italy and Brazil in 1970, won the World Cup in Spain and Germany, Paolo Rossi and Schillaci, and much more depending on the team we are /were fans and of course there are also the scandals which continue to ruin it. Football is all these things and why I will continue to watch the World Cup games

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Team love tattoed on the body

Published on June 28, 2014 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

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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The sport psychologist in young football

Published on June 26, 2014 in Calcio, Generale, Giovani and Young and Football. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

In our country the Italian Football Federation is the only sport federation that makes mandatory the presence of a sport psychologist for clubs wishing to reach the title of qualified football school. Sport psychologist in football school speaks in support of different professional roles. He deals  with psychological problems with methods and specific tools. The final objective pursued by the sport psychologist is to create a common language among all,  that will help all to go in the same direction, building an environment which offers the best sport experiences. The sport psychologist works with the athletes to encourage them as individual, encouraging cohesion, working on motivation. She works with the technical staff to improve their collaboration, to promote effective communication, child development, group dynamics, relationship management. He speaks with the parents  about the relevance of  supporting educational values and the fun.

The great relevance of social and sports impact of youth football in Italy and the space for the sport psychologist is made even more clear by its numbers

  • Clubs of youth and: 2.916
  • Young players: 619. 510
  • Coaches enabled FIGC: 61.114

(Source: FIGC- data on 30 June 2010)

(by Daniela Sepio)

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Biting to win: learning from Suarez

Published on June 25, 2014 in Calcio, Giovani and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

The Suarez bite to  Chiellini is the reaction of those who is frustrated to satisfy his needs as a player and as the only reaction is the physical injury to the opponent. Suarez is in good company, along with Zidane and Cantona in football and Tyson in boxing, belongs to that small number of sport champions who cannot manage their emotions during times of increased competitive pressure. Their response is primordial, archaic, they have not made a simple foul of retaliation, such as the one that claimed the expulsion of Marchisio. They accomplished a rather primitive foul; bite the shoulder, or with the head knock down the opponent without the ball or kick during the game … one fan. The way to overcome these situations is to not live other moments of high tension, but if you’re a player you cannot. For them it’s easy to understand, because we are talking about champions but to control the behaviors, stopping the impulsive reactions is not easy. For them, it’s usual to cope with the obstacles in the satisfaction of their own needs and be able to deal with. But what does the mind say in those moments? It tells him sadly “go and shoot because otherwise you’ll be to succumb and only if you are hard, others will respect you.” They have been hildren whose parents were absents or authoritarians but knowing it does not help, you need instead to recognize that now you are an adult responsible for your reactions, and that whatever the education received is now time to take responsibility for these actions. Suarez has been banned for 10 days for a bite to an opponent and he even went to a psychologist but it was not enough. It does not help to change the being overpaid and being accepted because in any case you scored a lot of goals, but you forget the person to favor the player. How many goals worth a bite, a behavior that is anti sport behavior? Is this the champion style we want to educate our child?

Read it also on: L’HuffingtonPost

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The losing attitude of Italy

Published on June 21, 2014 in Allenatori, Calcio and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

In football, the goal is a rare event and as such can be achieved at any time, at the first or the last minute as ever. For this reason it is necessary to be aggressive, determined, motivated and united as a team, to do what it takes to score a goal. Italy yesterday did not show this attitude and it’s not enough to hope in Buffon and in the inventions of Pirlo for Balotelli. Costa Rica is a team that believed instead, in the result to remember for a lifetime: to beat Italy. We too have a dream like Pirlo said and that is to win the world cup, but to reach it we have to fight every game independently from the opponents.’This is the attitude that Garcia and Conte have taught their teams, Roma and Juventus, and that’s what was missing yesterday to our team. Falling 11 times in the offside trap means not being focused as much as was necessary. To say that you cannot expect a gwhen you are on goal if you enter in the match for only 20 minutes, it means not to have realized that instead this is what is asked of you, otherwise the coach would put in another player. To take a booking because you are nervous, it means that you do not have the mentality to deal with the commitments of this competitive level. Too many individual actions and insisted dribbling at the end of the game show little research of others and the desire to become the Saviour of the game. “I Excited? There are no emotions, “said Cassano. Buffon and Pirlo would not statements of this type even though they are accustomed to games so important.  A the contrary the emotional charge as a team has been absent. The tension the team feels before going into the field, pushing the commitment beyond thefatigue and trouble because you feel ready. The emotions permit to raise the threshold of physical and mental fatigue. In the words of a famous African saying: every morning, no matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle, the important thing is that you begin to run.

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Spain: the fall of Gods

Published on June 19, 2014 in Calcio and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

It ‘s always hard to understand when it’s finished and even Spain has complied with this rule. The result of this team unawareness, that has dominated the world of football over the last 6 years, has been to lose at the world cup the two first matches against Netherlands and Chile, and in the seven goals conceded. Maurizio Crosetti in the newspaper La Repubblica to explain what happened uses the metaphor of the dinosaurs, “This is a geological era that ends … Everyone will say: there was Spain, was the mistress of the universe until one night he fell died as the dinosaurs. So monstrous, so fragile.” The game of  thousand assists no longer worked without the intensity and speed. Features that are lost not only to physical exhaustion but also for loss of the will, the desire to continue to be what you have been up to a minute before. When it does not happen, the player continue to play automatically but they have lost that mental spark allowing them to hide the ball to the opponents and hitting when they wanted. Spain has been in the field and started playing in the usual way, by memory, but lost the ball they were not able to take it, because the others were getting faster and combative. Losing the ball resulted in the players only frustration of those who did not understand how it was possible, instead given agonistic anger because their head had exhausted any kind of reaction. The sports competition is tough and it does not leave time for those who does not get up quickly after falling out and for respect of the match the opponents do not give time to recover rather they insist to chew out you until the end of the game. To make errors is physiological, everyone knows that it’s part of the game; not be ready to bounce back immediately instead is a big problem and Spain fell disastrously into this trap and lost. Also, I think that Del Bosque has called up for the World Cup players based on the principle that the team that won does not change, with the addition of the positive feeling will have for these players. This theme relates to the role of the coach is certainly not easy to deal with and now it would be too easy to make him the scapegoat. Guardiola  after winning everything and so repetitively with Barcelona left the team because he was exausted but perhaps also for the awareness of having reached a peak of successes hardly repeatable. Del Bosque has instead accepted the challenge to continue, after winning two consecutive European championships and one world cup,  trying to reach an almost impossible task but greatest if he could: on what foundation based its decision? Perhaps we’ll never know anyway but hat for having dared so much.

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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: , , , , .

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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Useless and harmful the match against the Ireland

Published on June 1, 2014 in Allenatori and Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Useless and harmful for injuries Montolivo and Aquilani the friendly match against Ireland. Italy did not win, as it has often happened in the past in the games leading up to the World Cup. Few holders in the field and many of those who were supposed to get noticed to find a place in the group they did not begin stood out. These games are good for nothing, they do not improve the player confidence and likely tthey leave a mood of dissatisfaction in all. Prandelli must make choices but I think that what we have seen in training should be more than enough to decide, especially knowing the Italian players that in the friendly matches rarely enter the field with a competitive and fighting attitude. So why play these matches, especially against a determined  and athletic opponent as the Irish, ey thhave repeatedly touched the goal and they wanted to win. Our players, as usual, did the least with the presumption to get the most .

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Borussia Dortmund anti-nazi spot

Published on May 23, 2014 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Borussia Dortmund’s media department have long been ahead of the game, and they’ve once ahead shown themselves to be trendsetters with a powerful new anti-racism advert that employs a lot of Nazi imagery. Before getting to the point, however, as thugs of neo-Nazi themed thugs are seen brutally playing football, as orders are barked from the sidelines from a man clearly meant to resemble Adolf Hilter. If the symbolism wasn’t clear enough, one shot is clearly saved in the video by the goalie performing the Nazi salute. The end of the video displays the unequivocal message that “Football and Nazis do not mix”. The video is the club’s latest effort to combat a small but significant right-wing extremist body that has infiltrated the club’s colourful fan base.

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