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The first paraplegics to run the Rome Marathon using the exoskeleton

Published on March 19, 2015 in Corsa and Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

Carmine Consalvi and Nicoletta Tinti face a new sport challenge: are the first complete paraplegics to attend the Rome Marathon, using a wearable exoskeleton. Sunday, March 22, Carmine and Nicoletta will walk viale delle Terme di Caracalla, for about a kilometer, showing how the exoskeleton has revolutionized their lives. The initiative, sponsored by the Saint Lucia Foundation in Rome, aims to get to know this technology, which promises to change the daily lives of so many people today forced into a wheelchair.

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It’s not enough to know the path, it needs to walk on it

Published on February 23, 2015 in Allenatori, Calcio, Generale, Mental coaching and Tennis. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Sometimes athletes and teams commit a serious error, they trust too much of what they they know to do well but in therrace they do not do it because they are convinced that just because they have thought then happen. It’s the Roma case of this period who start the matches convinced to win but then it does not play because it had already won it in the locker room. Or those asthletes who say “every time I do well the warm-up then I play bad.” Warm-up prepares to play well, but then you have to do it in the game: they are two separate aspects.

Be a good, well-trained and mentally prepared athlete is useful but it’s equally important to know that you must show these skills on the field. Otherwise they are useless.

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The soccer words: umility, confidence and motivation

Published on February 16, 2015 in Allenatori, Calcio, Giovani and Mental coaching. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

“We have not fallen into the shoes of the match. Draw useful at least to bring us back down to earth” (Allegri, coach Juventus).

“Before we did fear, we were more confident” (Florenzi, Roma footballer)

“The confidence of Mancini is critical to my teammates and me. Every day he gives me motivation and enthusiasm” (Guarin, Inter footballer).

Humility, confidence and motivation are the key concepts expressed in these sentences. Beyond the players’ technique and talent if in a team are lacking these mental qualities everything else is worth less than nothing.

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The Sport Psychology was born 50 years ago in Roma

Published on January 21, 2015 in Generale, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Aula Magna of the Italian Olympic Committee, Rome, the 20th of April, 1965. That was the place and moment of the inception of the International Society of Sport Psychology – ISSP, by the hands of a small group of pioneers, led by the Italian psychiatrist Ferruccio Antonelli. This happened during the 1st International ISSP World Congress of Sport Psychology marking the Modern Era of our scientific field.

From that moment professional and scientific networks were initiated, sport psychology was spread internationally, and the knowledge in this field was developed enormously. Continental societies appeared, with the North American Society of Sport and Physical Activity (NASSPA) and the European Federation of Sport Psychology (FEPSAC), being the first two. Concurrently, National societies began to be established, mainly in the European countries. The International Journal of Sport Psychology, the very first scientific journal in the area and for many years the ISSP official publication, was founded by Antonelli and published by Luigi Pozzi Editors in Rome.

Exactly fifty years after, this historical occasion will be celebrated in the very same place of the Italian Olympic Committee Centre, in Rome. For two days (April, 2015, 19-20), the ISSP 50th Anniversary Seminar will honor the past and all those who worked for the development of the Society. Celebrating the ISSP history is also an opportunity to look to the future. Hence, the motto of the event is “A Bridge from the Past to the Future”.

The program of the ISSP 50th Anniversary Seminar will include invited keynote lectures, symposia and workshops, as well as submitted poster sessions. Reflections on the historical route will be done, namely during the Past-Presidents round-table, and the future will be symbolically represented by the lectures presented by the 2013 ISSP Developing Scholar Award winners. The 50th Anniversary Gala Banquet sponsored by Luigi Pozzi Editors will be the perfect moment for the social interaction among all the participants.

All the information on: http://www.events-communication.net/b57/index.php?lang=en

 

 

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Roma with poor confidence in its skills

Published on November 27, 2014 in Allenatori, Calcio, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

After the game CSKA-Roma I wondered whether to defend the result of 1-0 as did Rome, staying for two-thirds of the second time in its half field is a sign of realism or it’s a demonstration of a mental limit that prevented the team from continuing to do its usual game. Florenzi seems to favor the latter interpretation of the result:  It’s a great insult to us, but we’re almost deserved because we played  differently in the second half. We were all behind and we did not  the hold ball, we are sorry because conceding goals in 15 ” is very sad.

Also interesting is the interpretation of  Francesco Totti who compared the goal did to his team at the last second to a Tyson’s punch. Continuing with the same metaphor, I would say that it is quite obvious that you can not leave for long time the initiative to Tyson because sooner or later comes the knockout punch .

There is a third explanation, Roma played back because the team was not confident about of its physical condition … but it would be very strange not to have this certainty, because adequate physical condition is the basis of the mental confidence to be competitive and successful throughout all the match.

In summary, I believe that Roma should work hard to change this defensive mentality and this lack of belief in itself. First, his coach should avoid such mistakes since he is the boss and he has to transmit to the team the conviction of being able to fight in the same way until the final whistle.

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Juventus & Roma too scary in Europe

Published on November 3, 2014 in Allenatori, Calcio, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

Yesterday I wrote that many coaches in Italian soccer premier league canot stress sufficiently the competitiveness of their team and that this fact obviously causes problems. What Massimo Mauro writes on Repubblica.it goes exactly in the same direction, speaking of the difficulties of Juventus and Roma.

“Allegri’s team is charged after the great victory of Empoli, but too many times we have become accustomed to the strong and arrogant team in the league and then appear humble and fearful in Europe … Even more worrying is Roma. From the night with Bayern seems have vanished the beautiful team of the last season and of this first part of the season. It looks faded group: those who play shows no more leg strength, who enters is lazy and does not seem to have the desire to change things, it transpires behind the discontent of the players. The new had to strengthen the group (Iturbe and Cole above all) but they have not done it, and Destro and Ljiaic  have no longer  the patience to wait.”

Two teams that outside of Italy have not been able to be competitivetill to now. In other words, they do not fight, do not try to retrieve lost balls with determination and do not start the matches with decision. This attitude of the team comes before the way to play and it’s based on a basic idea: before you do, then you do better, but if you do not do you will never  improve. It’s better to do one mistake rather than doing nothing. This means being competitive. At the contrary our teams seemed to be paralyzed by having to do the right things without making mistakes. With this attitudes they become slow and insecure and a confident opponent will bring home the result. I am convinced that if the coaches will be more aware of their inability, they may start to reflect on these issues to find appropriate solutions for their teams.

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Roma: too much self-esteem and expectations

Published on October 22, 2014 in Allenatori, Calcio and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

I think the problem of Roma, beyond the skill of Bayern can be summarized as follows: sometimes you just need to reduce expectations to avoid unnecessary disappointments.

Gianni Mura expressed on laRepublica the same concept with other words: “But if the self-confidence grew after the good match at Manchester, perhaps grown too much, now they have to pick up together the pieces and find again the play but also the character lost “.

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University master in Sport Psychology

Published on October 16, 2014 in Allenatori, Generale, Mental coaching and Stress. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

University Master in “Sport Psycology”

organized by Università Telematica San Raffaele, Roma, Italy

under the patronage of AISP – Associazione Italiana Psicologia dello Sport

 2014/2015, 1° edition

1.500 hours of online lessons, workshops and professional stage  

 registration deadline: November 1 2014

information and registration:

http://www.unisanraffaele.gov.it/universita/master-di-ii-livello-in-ldquo-psicologia-dello-sport-rdquo.html

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The foundation of Rudi Garcia’s hope

Published on April 15, 2014 in Calcio. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

At the end of Italian football championships, Rudi Garcia, Roma coach, continues to have the hope that, also if Juventus has 8 points more than his team, something could happen changing this ranking in favor of Roma.  At this regard, which are the psychological basis of the hope thinking?

“Snyder, Irving & Anderson (1991, as cited in Snyder, 2000, p.8) define hope as “a positive motivational state that is based on an interactively derived sense of successful (a) agency (goal-directed energy) and (b) pathways (planning to meet goals)” .

Hope theory can be subdivided into four categories: goals, pathway thoughts, agency thoughts and barriers. Goals that are valuable and uncertain are described by Snyder (1994, as cited in Snyder, 2000, p.9) as the anchors of hope theory as they provide direction and an endpoint for hopeful thinking. Pathway thoughts refer to the routes we take to achieve our desired goals and the individual’s perceived ability to produce these routes (Snyder, 2000).  Agency thoughts refer to the motivation we have to undertake the routes towards our goals. Barriers block the attainment of our goals and in the event of a barrier we can either give up or we can use our pathway thoughts to create new routes.” (From http://www.positivepsychology.org.uk/pp-theory/hope/100-what-is-hope-and-how-can-we-measure-it.html)

This definition fits well with Roma, because the team build is confidence through the winning results and its cohesion, directing in this direction its energy and during all the season showed the road it took to reach these results greatly.

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Roma does not have a winning mind

Published on February 13, 2014 in Generale. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Roma is playing a  very positive championship. In fact, this year it has become a competitive team, showing how to win the most games with minimal losses. It’s on the right track to achieve a winning mentality, which means getting into the pitch with the confidence to cope successfully face any team. Compared to what it has been shown up to now, Roma has not yet reached this milestone, I testify, in my opinion, who has suffered two defeats in the two most important games he played. The match against Juventus in the league, which would allow her to continue to exert strong pressure on Juve same and the one against Napoli in the Italian Cup. In both lost the confrontation with the opponent in a clear way. The next step will be to maintain the same strong conviction even in the big games, which determine the difference between a good season and a great one.

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