The Confidence Coach's Sports Psychology Reports
The Sports Psychology Report - Football Coaching Types
Psychological Type 1: The Thinker
A combination of Scientist and Strategist. The thinker has an MSc in football. A devotee of the history and cultural development of football. Always curious, travelling the world to absorb new methods, tactics, organisations and structures.
Will facilitate all the latest developments in sports psychology and sports physiology. Will also look to sources outside football for ideas. Loves deploying their strategic skills against the best. The thinker plans his match campaigns like a general.
Observing every nuance of the game, ready to introduce plans B to G if A isn't working. They become absorbed in the games rhythms and patterns and can appreciate a 0-0 draw possibly more than a seven-goal thriller.
Strengths: Curiosity, Analytical, Attention To Detail
Potential Weaknesses: The thinker must be careful not to overload their players with too much information. They must remember not to spend too much time trying to get the players used to complicated systems.
Turning Weaknesses Into Strengths: For one week forget the information overload. Walk in at ten to three and hold the ball out to the team. Say 'This is the ball. Make it your friend'. In other words, 'Keep It Simple'..
Sports Psychology Tip: How To Spot-'The Thinker'
The thinker can be found sat up in the stand away from the hurly burly of the touchline. Invariably they have phone to ear, offering a critical overview to the bench. Prone to stroking their chin, as they puzzle out a strategy to turn things around. Preferring business suit to track-suit. Keeps their emotions to themselves when their team score, or when a decision goes against their team.
Examples Past And Present: Arsene Wenger, Sam Allardyce, Glenn Hoddle, Sir Clive Woodward, Rafa Benitez, Terry Venables, David Platt, Sir Winston Churchill, Stormin Norman Schwarzkopf, Lord Horatio Nelson
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