Soccer Tough: Simple Football Psychology Techniques to Improve Your Game (Soccer Coaching)

"Take a minute to slip into the mind of one of the world's greatest soccer players and imagine a stadium around you. Picture a performance under the lights and mentally play the perfect game."

Technique, speed and tactical execution are crucial components of winning soccer, but it is mental toughness that marks out the very best players - the ability to play when pressure is highest, the opposition is strongest, and fear is greatest. Top players and coaches understand the importance of sport psychology in soccer but how do you actually train your mind to become the best player you can be?

Soccer Tough demystifies this crucial side of the game and offers practical techniques that will enable soccer players of all abilities to actively develop focus, energy, and confidence. Soccer Tough will help banish the fear, mistakes, and mental limits that holds players back. Soccer psychology consultant Dan Abrahams shares the powerful techniques that have helped him develop reserve team players to become international players, and guided youth team players from slumps to first team contracts.

Covering the mental triumphs of some of the world's leading players - Soccer Tough will help you become the best player you can be. Soccer Tough is for amateur and professional players of all levels, as well as coaches. This book explores how the best soccer players in the world think and gives the reader step-by-step ways to do the same.

Dan Abrahams is a former professional golfer and PGA golf coach. For over 20 years, he has been a fully qualified and registered sport psychologist (HCPC) working globally across a range of sports with competitors of all ages and at all levels. Over that time, Dan has helped thousands of ambitious players develop a Mental Playbook to help them reach their sporting goals. He has consulted with, amongst others, multiple Premier League clubs and elite teams across European football; Major League Soccer and National Women's Soccer League teams; England Rugby; England Golf; Aston Martin F1, and numerous elite athletes, coaches, and teams across the world. An in-demand consultant and speaker, Dan also works in Corporate environments supporting some of the world's companies, including Cognizant, Bank of America, Aveva, Lexi Nexis, and The Weather Company. He is host of the hugely popular Sport Psych Show podcast, and is author of five internationally best-selling books on the psychology of sport.

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Bennion Kearny
25 x 19 cm
Paperback
180 pages
August 2012
English
‎9780957051195