Some young athletes live this experience, physically and psychologically, with difficulty before the sports competition and those who have an anxious nature are more difficult than others. This phenomenon occurs especially in the minutes before the sporting event!
If for some professionals the psycho-physical tensions can express a positive reaction to the body, for athletes who do not have a particularly strong personality, anxiety can become fear or panic and compromise performance. Tachycardia, collagen, itching, gastric problems such as burning or nausea, and at one time all the talent may disappear.
Anxiety can cause damage to any role in football, but if it is a goalkeeper or coach it can produce devastating effects. If this symptom is present in the pre-match in the extreme defender, especially if particularly young, it depends on the ability of the goalkeeper coach to recognize the difficulty and to seek the support of the sports psychologist who uses the emotional reaction to something positive. It is vital to convey confidence, self-esteem, confidence in your means. Among the stress factors that are psychologically successful not to compromise performance, we find the following:Many coaches live sporting events with great anxiety and transmit this "state of anxiety" to their players. What if they do not speak of this anxiety? Many of the energies available for sports competition must be invested in managing and controlling these situations. When the coach recognizes the difficulties and reports the problem to the sports psychologist, he can help the player and invest differently the avaiable energies. When the psychologist analyzes the team can treat the subject individually or collectively to reduce the handicaps that can affect the championship and the sports season. Anxiety can cause damage to any role in football, but if it is a goalkeeper or coach it can produce devastating effects. If this symptom is present in the pre-match in the extreme defender, especially if particularly young, it depends on the ability of the goalkeeper coach to recognize the difficulty and seek the support of the sports psychologist who uses the emotional reaction into something positive. It is vital to convey confidence, self-esteem, confidence in your means. Among the stress factors that are psychologically successful not to compromise performance, we find the following:
Do not feel right: the anxious subject lives this condition and at the first mistake this thought becomes a true conviction. For this reason, it is important for the psychologist to help him express himself better, even managing the trend, unfortunately, that many coaches have to humiliate the subject by expressing excessive anger;
Performance anxiety: victory is decisive but must not become an obsession and consequently defeat is part of the game and must be a stimulus to improve;
The management of the sport comparison: the game must remain a game and as such it must be fun, because football is such before it is even a spectacular sport;
Reactive coaches: many players are anxious just because they fear the behavioral reactions of their coaches and this factor increases the error index;
The application of the rules: especially in the field of youth football it must be understood that the rules and the arbitral authority are elements to be respected, elements that express confidence and not the opposition also to ensure fair play;
The emotions of playing in the face of the public: many young athletes, who during sports training express their potential at best, when they play in a sports arena do not control anxiety because they can not manage their emotional flows and they need a specific psychological work.
Authors:
Paolofabrizio De Luca
Sports Psychologist - Football Players' Agent - FIFA
Alan Bellatore
Coach
S.S.Maceratese 1922
