The Confidence Coach's Sports Psychology Reports
Sports Psychology Report - The Brain Of The Perfect Football Manager
4: The Strategist
Will always find a way to win even when others anticipate defeat. The strategist is a master of the mind game and loves the mental challenge that competition at the highest level provokes. They are a devoted student of the game and have an astute awareness of tactics, strategies and tacticians.
The Manager: Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho is probably the first of the new generation of well educated managers and coaches. He was not a professional player, but he is young and is in touch with the modern world and his contemporaries.
He has a European grounding, understudying at Barcelona and a world view. He studies closely the opposition and adjusts his strategies accordingly. He manages players very well, Benni McCarthy and Derlei, difficult characters both, served him loyally at Porto; Cudicini a world class goalie is happy to be second choice at Chelsea. John Terry, Frank Lampard and Joe Cole have improved so much under Mourinho that two of them, at least, are mainstays of the England team.
Recently, trailing at half-time to Bolton, his willingness to take a risk by replacing defender Del Horno with forward Gudjohnsen was hailed as genius.
The Sports Psychology Report - The Storyteller
