Professor Ian Maynard Ph.D., C.Psychol. F.BASES explains it all.  Read his articles in each issue to gain a better understanding of the subject and your players.

An Introduction to Sport Psychology for Football

What is Sport Psychology and why do we need it?

‘Once you’ve got the physical bit, then it is all in the mind’

‘For success, first performers must have talent, second they must work, and third they must have control of their mind’

     ...The fact that there is a relationship between mental state and physical performance is undoubted and is well documented, with the sports literature seemingly full of quotes such as those above. Most if not all sportsmen and women agree that a large part of their success is determined by what they think, whether it is in training or in competition. Will Carling, England’s most successful Rugby Union captain when asked on TV who would win between England and the All Blacks, chose to ignore the physical capabilities of the players when he said that ‘the team that wins will be the team that is mentally the strongest just before the kick-off’...

Read the full article in the first issue