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Mindset and technical skill are trained through the development of specific game vision. The Barcelona videos on the goals at youth teams show how these two aspects are part of a way of teaching football. Barcelona has its own … how many Italian teams works in this way rather than just teach tactics and technique? Without the mind there is no game vision and the young players are trained to become soldiers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/video/2013/jun/13/messi-barcelona-youth-goals-video
Some ideas from Jonny Wilkinson new book (Rugby quantique, with Etienne Klein e Jean Iliopoulos) useful for our reflexions.
“During the coaching you should do your very best. Means that it is not enough to pass the ball between the posts, but exactly in the middle.”
“Even before I kick, I feel the point at which I will be in contact with the ball. In my mind I see the exact trajectory of the ball.”
“The reason why I train mentally, is that in this way I can have a workout absolutely perfect.”
“I am never satisfied with what I do on the field. For this reason I continue to work after training with sessions of two or three hours. My goal is to create a confidence climate around me, to build strong and useful habits supporting me. ”
“Rugby is the real team play, yes. As I said, we are always connected. It’s impossible to have the opportunity to score a punishment without the men in the fray.”
“Some time ago I read that the best way to achieve our goals is to help others achieve theirs. I am deeply convinced.”
Life is good. Said the Italian rugby player Lo Cicero when he left this sport. Others have not been able to say goodbye to rugby till now. Players like O’Driscoll and Wilkinson, rugby legends, they had all from this sport and they did all for it, and they continue to stay on the field for another year. About the mind of the rugby players read more on:
Start to be more positive towards ourselves and more convinced to provide a good performance is based on the effective start showing some simple behaviors but can pass a performance from negative to positive.
These simple actions are:
These are just some examples of what it can do for an athlete to learn to drive himself to get in the best state of mind before and during the race.
In football has become a very frequent to say that we have a few champions and for this reason our teams have difficulty becoming competitive at international level. The coaches say that we have a few football talents and that is the problem. Usually the definition of talent is based on the technical skills of the players and their athletic skills, while the coaches pay less attention to their psychological skills. This result in that we probably have only a young champion, El Shaarawy and many others that are definitely good, but that do not emerge for continuity of play and the ability to make a difference in a team. I think we should take more account of the mental development of players and their ability to adapt to different forms of play of the teams in our premiere league. If this is not done, the risk is to have good players but showing adjustment difficulties in the transition from one team to another or play against opponents who have different systems to play. In addition, the high expectations of these players and their societies may represent a further obstacle to their success. Needless to say that mental training programs could be useful to them to carry out this profession with success.
These days I attended futsal matches and I realized that it is an evolution of the traditional football from which it differs very significantly. Of course it is played with a ball, there is a goalkeeper and win the team that makes more goals but in other respects is another sport. Here in what in my opinion is different:
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In questo periodo dell’anno parlò con molti atleti che sono scontenti delle loro prestazioni, si sono allenati per tutto l’inverno e ora vorrebbero vincere sempre o comunque fare molto bene. Aspettative legittime ma irrealistiche, perché ci sono anche gli avversari ma soprattutto in quanto gareggiare non è solo una espressione del proprio valore tecnico ma è un’attività che deve essere guidata dalla mente. Diciamo pure che senza la mente, la tecnica è inutile; perché la gara è gestione efficace dello stress agonistico, che una volta domato consente alla tecnica dell’atleta di esprimersi al massimo livello. Chi non fosse in grado di svolgere questi compiti non potrà mai gareggiare con soddisfazione o in modo vincente.
