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Set goals are an expression of a common pursuit
It’s a kind of art form to build a successful team in sport. Not even the greatest coaches in the world succeed overnight. No, Maxi, I’m not exaggerating when describing the process of creating a team. I know, it’s not a coach’s game, but it is a player’s game. Although it’s the players who are physically playing, the coach is the one who holds a clear vision of the game and the team, and transforms it into practice with the players. The coach must help players to fully understand what it …
Mental Performance of a Champion
“Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness and respect for authority is the price that each and every one of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile” —Vince Lombardir Becoming a successful football player or being a player is never as easy as you may have been thinking. True players can only tell you this. The problem is that the real players have been able to mask the underlying internal workings of the football mental game …
Coach – Coaching
Behind every great team that achieves results, produces quality football and plays an entertaining game, you will fi nd a manager or coach with a charismatic personality, who is frequently an emblematic fi gure within his club or country (a Beckenbauer, Cruyff, Ferguson, Hitzfeld, Jacquet, Lippi, Platini, Parreira, Roux, Trapattoni or Zagalo). There is no specifi c programme at youth level aimed at achieving high-quality performances or at changing the behaviour of a player without the full involvement of a coach or recognised instructor, such as Pekerman (Argentina), Pua (Uruguay), Queiroz …
Jose Mourinho: Sir Alex Ferguson ‘more than welcome’ at Man United
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has told United We Stand that Sir Alex Ferguson is welcome in the dressing room and at training — and the Scot has already been to the club’s Carrington base several times this season. Ferguson, 74, is a director at the club but had stayed away from Carrington since retiring as the club’s manager in 2013, after 26 years in charge. “He had not been back since he left, but I brought him back to be with his people,” Mourinho said. “I wanted the players to …
