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This night win the team more cohesive

What should we expect this evening from Italy against Spain?

The definitive confirmation of the importance of team cohesion. This match will be important not only for the obvious relevance of the victory, but for the history of these years that has led to this decisive match for the entrance into the final of the European championship.

It is useless to pretend nothing happened, we play to win and Italy is used to obtaining this result through the choral work of the single players. In these hours, the competitive tension grows and it can be governed by believing in the power of the team, from which comes the effective shot and the decisive save.

The moments in our favor are built, as we have seen in previous games, through the commitment of all and this will allow the manifestation of those actions of individuals that should lead to a final winning result for us.

The psychological reasons of the negative momentum of the Italian football team

The reasons for the negative performances of the national football team are also psychological and it seems that this kind of explanation has not been taken into consideration by Ventura, national ct, while in this respect most significant players, primarily Buffon, Chiellini and Barzagli have expressed ideas quite clear. It all started from the statements following the defeat with Spain. Ventura said that the players were professionals who would have been able to react positively to 3-0 right away and that this result could not have had any negative impact on the confidence of the team. Opposed were the words of Buffon after the last match with Macedonia:

Then, the national team to get out of this negative phase needs: confidence, awareness of one’s own strength, know getting up after defeats, know help, have fun, be uninhibited and positive. But the team was set to these principles? And what was plan B (what you do in place when things are not going in the right way) before the matches with Spain and with Macedonia? How are players helped during the camps to empower this mindset suggested by Buffon and underlying any winning mentality? Certainly it is true that psychological skills are acquired over time rather than a weekend. Also, some players have no place in their club team and so they have no way to test themselves frequently, in matches that you must absolutely win. Nonetheless I would like to heard, at least once, the coach say that meet some psychological difficulties is part of the game and that just because the players are professionals, the team is  also working on the mental approach to the game and how to play with a winning mentality. Then may the best team win.

Napoli has melted in Spain

At the first big match of the new season Napoli has been eliminated from the Champions League. This was due, according to the newspapers in a “careless defensive line,” “a harmless launch from the sidelines, Albiol has not understood with Rafael, the two have made ​​surprise by Aduriz who burned them on time and he easily slipped the door was unguarded “,” the defense gives the score.” Regardless of the technical value of individual players and the team as a whole, these comments highlight the lack of psychological value of Napoli. Benitez has not build a  fighting and determined team. The attentional errors did by Napoli have been made regardless of the technical value of the single player and I am convinced that aggression is an indispensable and trainable team quality if you want to compete at a high level in Europe. Little attention is given to the search for players who possess this mental dimension in favor of the search for even the most technically gifted players in the field but that will melt like snow  at the sun. This parameter is too often forgotten and so, while in Europe the teams run and fight, we continue to complain.

Spain: the fall of Gods

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.

Spain disaster

The Spain match teaches us that without fighting spirit and physical fitness, the technique alone is useless. It was a match in which the world and European champions have not been able to show their skills, they are probably mentally exhausted, playing with the conviction of those who think that their past it is enough to intimidate the opponents. Spain has not reacted to the draw and the gaze of Casillas, who is lost and does not believe in what it’s happening reflects the team mood. If you’re not prepared to lose you cannot win, because you assume the positive result and you’re not ready to respond to the difficulties that there are in every match. In the pitch you win or die, and only those who are willing to lose everything win.

Pamplona’s annual running of the bulls

Four people were hurt on Sunday on the first day of Pamplona’s annual running of the bulls. The good news: no one was gored this year! During the event, several thousand participants ran alongside eight fighting bulls in the northern Spanish city. See photos.

Giochiamo come sappiamo

Più che con il cuore, il coraggio, il talento, le idee e chi più ne ha più ne metta, direi giochiamo come sappiamo che è il massimo. Anzi che giochino come sanno, giacché io sarò in poltrona.

The killer istinct to win the European football championship

Per vincere gli europei di calcio serve il killer istinct, perché non bisogna perdere le partite che si dominano, come potrebbe fare la Spagna o lasciare troppo spazio perché poi con il contropiede si farà goal come potrebbe fare l’Italia.
Cos’è il killer instinct:
• E’ la volontà di fare ciò che è ragionevolmente necessario per vincere o per raggiungere il proprio obiettivo.
• E’ la consapevolezza di quando bisogna spingere per chiudere la partita e lo si fa.
• E’ la consapevolezza che quando si conduce non bisogna lasciarsi sfuggire l’occasione di continuare a farlo.
• E’ la consapevolezza che quando l’avversario è sotto, bisogna continuare a tenerlo sotto.
• E’ la volontà di volere riemergere con successo da una fase di gioco negativa.

Come svilupparlo:
• Mai pensare che sarà facile vincere. Nessuno può garantire alla squadra il risultato finale e tantomeno noi stessi.
• Mai rilassarsi quando si sta conducendo una partita, se la tensione cala bisogna continuare a darsi degli obiettivi di gioco, per mantenere elevata la concentrazione.
• Quando si sta vincendo si può ridurre la tensione agonistica e questo è pericoloso. Bisogna servirsi d’immagini mentali che mantengano costante il livello di attivazione.
• L’eccesso di fiducia della squadra può diventare una trappola che avvolge e favorisce l’emergere di distrazioni. Bisogna agire mentalmente per restare concentrati istante su istante, perché i conti si fanno solo al termine della partita e non un minuto prima.
• Mai pensare al risultato finale, la squadra deve essere centrata solo sul presente e sul giocare al meglio.
• Mantenere sempre elevata la pressione sull’avversario è una delle chiavi del successo. Lo scopo è di trasmettere alla squadra avversaria l’idea che qualsiasi cosa possa fare resterà sempre sotto.
• Mai affrettare l’azione ma giocare sempre con gli stessi tempi che si sono dimostrati efficaci sino a quel momento.