Football Psychology Tips: Case Study: Developing A Fearless Approach With A Professional Footballer Fear is very common in professional sport and can be overcome The Client: A centre forward who had played professional football for 5 years The Challenge: The client had played with his existing club for 12 months. The first six months he …
Football Psychology Tips: Do You Worry Too Much About What Other People Think? Trying to gain social approval is natural but… Many footballers that I work with to improve their performance levels worry too much about what other people think. It could be the manager, coaching staff, fans, team-mates, scouts, friends, family or parents. Do …
Soccer Psychology Tips: How to Help Young Footballers Find The Zone Many children do not know how to mentally prepare before matches As a parent you naturally get worked up before your children compete in a football match. You might worry that they’ll make a mistake that costs their team a goal. Or how they’ll …
Goalkeeper Psychology Tips: Managing Your Confidence When You’re A Goalkeeper How you analyse your performance is crucial for managing goalkeeper confidence Every goalkeeper I speak to or support has made a mistake. Goalkeepers are not robots, they are human beings after all. This is why managing goalkeeper confidence is so important. Most weeks, there are …
Goalkeeper Psychology Tips: Helping Boost Young Goalkeepers Self Confidence Confidence in your ability is essential to succeed Often children are placed in goal as a punishment or because no-one else wants to go in goal – what sort of message is that telling them about the position? Especially as the goalkeeper’s role is arguably the most …
Football Psychology Tips: 5 Reasons Why Being Released from a Football Academy is Difficult Feeling lost and helpless isn’t much fun When youth team players aged between 15 and 18 are not signed to their adult squads depression, anxiety and loss of confidence are often experienced with some even developing drug and alcohol problems as …
Goalkeeper Psychology Tips: Goalkeeping – How to Respond to Mistakes Do you lose focus after making an error? As a goalkeeper, mistakes will happen, it is a natural part of the great game. Whether you come to catch a cross then drop it in the path of an attacking player or you let a ball …
Soccer Psychology Tips: A Common Mental Game Error Many Footballers Make Is being 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 lack …
Football Psychology Tips: Are You a Footballer Who Worries About Your Opponents? Can you sometimes focus too much on the size or skill of your opponents? If you do – you will likely be intimidated on occasions. You’ll compare yourself to other footballers and in your mind think they are better that you. This is …
Goalkeeper Psychology Tips: Beating Perfectionism as a Goalkeeper Are you searching for perfection? If you lack self-belief and confidence when you train and in matches, maybe you have perfectionist tendencies? Perfectionists demand an awful lot from themselves, arguably too much. They can be fixated on performing to an unreachable level. These high and unrealistic expectations …