One of clients had just forwarded us a link to a very recent article about the mental skills the current England football / soccer manager has used to improve the team’s performances. Regardless of if you follow soccer or not it’s well worth a read and if you do please put you comments up on the BLOG for others to read:
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/feature?id=732672&cc=3436&ver=global
My one comment would be how the top coaches are actually more like informal sport psychologists now than technical coaches. Things will get really exciting when this “old school” mental conditioning is combined with the new, science based principles (that we and other qualified sport psychologists use). Cheers, GJM