Goalkeeping Psychology Tips: How to Trust Your Skills When You’re a Goalkeeper Are you an overthinker when playing in goal? What is the meaning of trust when you’re a goalkeeper? In general, according to Oxford Languages, trust is “a firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something.” So how does this …
Soccer Psychology Tips: How To Conquer Self Doubt On The Soccer Pitch So That You Perform With Confidence Doubts are very natural when you play soccer or football Even the best players in the world experience doubts on a regular basis. However, what they are great at is placing those doubts to one side so …
Football Psychology Tips: A Common Mental Game Error Many Footballers Make Is being too perfect a challenge for you? It doesn’t matter how old or how young you are or your level of skill. All footballers make mistakes because of mental game errors. These errors can be caused by a lack of self-awareness and a …
Soccer Psychology Tips: Case Study -Supporting a Young Footballer to Overcome His Fears This example represents a very common challenge we help solve The Client: A 12 year old footballer who has taken part in a series of unsuccessful trials at professional football academies. The Challenge: The client was a talented attacking player, who was …
Football Psychology Tips: 5 Coaching Tips to Develop Mentally Tough Footballers Is your communication helping or hindering your team? In lots of clubs and teams, from the management team, the coaching staff down to the players, you often find many people getting caught up in behaviours associated with Mental Sensitivity. When this happens, individually players …
Soccer Psychology Tips: Does Your Warm Up Influence How You Perform? Many footballers decide before a match that they aren’t going to perform very well. In the final moments before the referee blows the whistle to start the game a lot of players are in the wrong mindset. One of the reason’s players get in …
Goalkeeper Psychology Tips: How To Overcome Self-Doubt When You’re A Goalkeeper Self-doubt can erode confidence if you let it Can you be too hard on yourself when you’re in goal in a match or afterwards when assessing your performance? We are naturally wired to think negatively, yet too many of these thoughts are guaranteed to …
Football Psychology Tips: 7 Tips on Taking Penalty Kicks Under Pressure Taking a penalty has to be one of the most nerve racking moments As the fallout from England’s loss to Italy, on penalties, in the Euro 2020 final continues. I thought I’d write a piece about penalty kicks and the link with Mental Toughness. …
Sports Psychology Tips: 5 Ways to Create a Psychological Safe Sporting Environment Do your players often play it safe and choose not to take a risk? Whether it is on the pitch when passing the ball or selecting a shot to play many players retreat into their shell taking a safe approach. Some even play …
Soccer Psychology Tips: Case Study: Supporting a Professional Footballer during Challenging Times It’s important to recognize footballers are human beings too The Client: A professional footballer who played at international level. The Challenge: The client had lost his confidence and his desire to train hard. In matches, he was on the periphery when he was …