There was a baseball pitcher from the Atlanta Braves (John Smoltz) who was psyching himself out while out on the mound and was having problems (and I think losing games or being pulled from games fairly early...they usually swap out pitchers before the end of a game, but the starter usually pitches most of it), so his therapist started sitting in the stands behind home plate when he was the starter and would wear a bright red shirt...and it helped him? It helped him so much that he eventually went from total suckitude to lesser suckitude and helped his team win the World Series for the first time in almost 40 years after the strike that made Americans hate their national game (and Atlanta haven't won again, but I digress
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Yeah, they dojazzypomFebruary 1 2019, 13:50:03 UTC
But do football teams even use sports psychologists since there are so many speshel snowflakes in football?
I think when Rodgers was coaching LFC, he hired a sports pyschologist to work on Raheem Sterling - and that was four years ago. Also, with increasing players coming forward re: mental health issues, I'm sure there's more behind the scenes.
RE: Yeah, they doms_geeketteFebruary 1 2019, 20:12:10 UTC
Eek, when I said speshel snowflakes, I was meaning ego-maniacs who think they are perfect and God's gift to life even if they...aren't, and probably wouldn't listen to anyone, even if they were trying to tell them that their jacket had caught on fire.
Raheem definitely seems to have had/still have? some mental blocks/something big going on affecting his play. And I don't even think a player has to have an active mental health issue going on at the moment to affect their performance mentally.
Like, what abandonar said in their comment about Sevilla and Barca really reminded me of a situation I had growing up playing YMCA-sponsored softball. One team we played in the area practiced constantly, they were practically a college-level team in skill by high school, and of course they stomped on all the teams they played, including us. For years, we just came into the mindset that we were *definitely* going to lose the games we played against them - the only surprise/unknown was by *how* many runs they would beat us by and if we would score at
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Apparently, the AAIB have found seat cushions that are supposedly from Sala's aircraft.
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Wtf Chelsea?
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it is a mentality problem that will never die.
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I think when Rodgers was coaching LFC, he hired a sports pyschologist to work on Raheem Sterling - and that was four years ago. Also, with increasing players coming forward re: mental health issues, I'm sure there's more behind the scenes.
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Raheem definitely seems to have had/still have? some mental blocks/something big going on affecting his play. And I don't even think a player has to have an active mental health issue going on at the moment to affect their performance mentally.
Like, what abandonar said in their comment about Sevilla and Barca really reminded me of a situation I had growing up playing YMCA-sponsored softball. One team we played in the area practiced constantly, they were practically a college-level team in skill by high school, and of course they stomped on all the teams they played, including us. For years, we just came into the mindset that we were *definitely* going to lose the games we played against them - the only surprise/unknown was by *how* many runs they would beat us by and if we would score at ( ... )
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