COACH SABAN ON TRUTH
“The hardest part is we have to believe the truth when someone tells us we need to improve on something . . . if you don’t you’ll never improve.”
For those coaches intrigued by Cognitive Load Theory for sports coaching…
See the wonderful graphic below by @XpatEducator
This is for teachers, but a highly relevant graphic for coaches to help them make sense of session design and instructions…with relevance to Cognitive Load Theory
Take some time to read through this and make sense of Cognitive Load Theory for your coaching practice.
Also listen to my podcast episode with the very awesome @Jattaylor and @Rdtaylor_16 talking about their paper on cognitive science in coaching here: https://t.co/z05I56NYAU
And their paper is here: https://t.co/qUYxoyGFSh
Ooof!
Come on now…
Come on…
Ange gets it. Ange really does get it. He gets the granular details of mindset.
“We’re not playing our football. We’re reacting to the time. We’re reacting to the score…”
Ange…straight out of the playbook of a sport psychologist. This is impressive. I’m impressed!
“Sometimes that’s false” he says, pointing to the scoreline. “Sometimes you’re battering a team and losing one-nil. Other times you’re winning one-nil and you’re getting away with it. You can’t react to that…”
Oh Ange…you beaut!
Ok, ok…so I’m getting carried away. But, as simplistic as this sounds, this is a fantastic message…and one that, as simplistic as it is, is rarely spoken about in team meetings (at least in my experience…and that’s not to suggest it never is).
But here’s the thing. It’s all very well asking players to direct their mind towards the controllables. It’s another thing helping them to do this. You can be as insistent as you want, the reality is that players need simple but powerful mental playbooks to help them do this.
They need simple but powerful mental playbooks packed with individual-specific mental techniques that help them compete with mental skill…
-to be able to stay focused and connected to the game no matter what
-to be able to play at an optimal level of intensity no matter what
-to be able to execute actions with energy-forward…with a positive intent no matter what
I voted for her. I think he’s a bad guy.
But if you lose the senate, house, electoral college AND popular vote, and you think the lesson is half the country is racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and stupid… wrong lesson. And the same thing will likely happen in 2028.
The best data sources to build your online portfolio:
• FBref
• Statsbomb open data
• Understat
• Transfermarkt
• WhoScored
• Club Elo
• FotMob
• Capology
Some of these sources require scraping, so I'd highly recommend learning Python.
⚽️🧠A perfect example of how a tactically organized team, combined with individual skill and spatial awareness, can stand up to any opponent in the world! #Teamwork#SirRuben#Football
https://t.co/OCpoqa9CXf
🚨 UConn’s 4 Core Principles
1. Be selfless w/ your words & actions
2. Be process driven vs. results driven
3. Be a relentless competitor (“a dog”)
4. Be a mindful/intelligent communicator
Throwback.
Journalist: "Is Guardiola a reference to you as a manager?"
Rúben Amorim: "My reference has always been José Mourinho."
THIS IS FOOTBALL HERITAGE, SON.