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X-FACTOR

How to Help Young Players Stop Enjoying Their Football

by David Charlton
Making mistakes

17 April 2024 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How to Help Young Players Stop Enjoying Their Football It’s great to see a young person on the football pitch enjoying themself.  Taking risks with the ball, giving 110% for their team no matter what the scoreline is, laughing and smiling a lot and …

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Categories Enjoyment, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

How To Improve The Culture At Your Football Club

by David Charlton
Carlo Ancelotti

27 March 2024 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How To Improve The Culture At Your Football Club In football or soccer clubs around the globe there are some great environments to play football, get better and enjoy the experience and there are some less desirable environments.  Many factors come in to play …

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Categories Culture, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

How To Quieten The Mind On The Football Pitch

by David Charlton
Roberto Baggio

06 March 2024 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How To Quieten The Mind On The Football Pitch Typically, when we see a top professional footballer, like, Real Madrid and England midfielder, Jude Bellingham perform at their best we marvel at their skills and strength that they display.  When questioned about their focus or …

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Categories Decision Making, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

Can You Lose Your Composure On The Football Pitch?

by David Charlton
Best Decision Made

21 February 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances Can You Lose Your Composure On The Football Pitch? Today’s X-FACTOR is designed to challenge your thinking so that you can up your game when the pressure is on.  When you play football or soccer I’m pretty sure you will have come across critical …

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Categories Decision Making, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

How To Help Sensitive Footballers After They Make A Mistake

by David Charlton
Gareth Southgate on mistakes

7 February 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How To Help Sensitive Footballers After They Make A Mistake Making mistakes when you play football or soccer is a normal part of the game but is really hard for some people to take.  You’ll often see the following on a pitch, from the …

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Categories Decision Making, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

How to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

by David Charlton
Jose Mourinho Quote

24 January 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How to Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable In football you’ll likely face different levels of adversity when you play, from making a mistake costing your team 3 points in an important game, being at a club where your coach doesn’t select you, you may try …

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Categories Mindfulness, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

Do You Worry Too Much About What Others Think Of You?

by David Charlton
Strong Love

10 January 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances Do You Worry Too Much About What Others Think Of You? Social approval is a very common challenges for many football and soccer players especially young players and can worry their parents and coaches. For the football player who struggles with social approval they’ll …

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Categories Concentration, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

Do You Let Your Opponent’s Intimidate You?

by David Charlton
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Quote

13 December 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How to Overcome Self-intimidation A great way to ensure that you start a match “one-nil down” is to place too much emphasis on your opponents.  Many football and soccer players do, they scroll social media and the internet for snippets of information before their …

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Categories Emotional Intelligence, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

How to Play Soccer Expectation Free

by David Charlton
Be Brave

29 November 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How to Play Soccer Expectation Free If you were to play soccer or football expectation free what would other people see? From my experience of supporting 1000s of footballers from the 8 year old child up to the Premier League player you’d likely notice …

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Categories Fear of Failure Podcast, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR

How to Help Emotional Football Players Stay in Control

by David Charlton
Be Brave

1 November 2023 Developing The X-FACTOR To Transform Your Football Performances How to Help Emotional Football Players Stay in Control Welcome back to our third X-FACTOR email where we look to help the footballer who struggles with his or her emotions on the football or soccer pitch.  When we think about anger on the football …

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Categories Emotional Regulation, Soccer Mindset, X-FACTOR
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