Soccer Tough: Simple Football Psychology Techniques To Improve Your Game

Dan Abrahams brings to light some of the issues for new and old footballers in his soccer psychology book, Soccer Tough: Simple Football Psychology Techniques to Improve Your Game. With the old school mentality of sport being 90% mental and 10% physical, Abrahams sheds some insight on some of the mental tricks and tips that help not only beginning footballers, but some of his pro clientele. By using key witnesses and popular references, Abrahams hopes to assist in people’s goals of whatever their weaknesses are. But, in this instance, he also takes into account that not all athletes are destined for prolific fame. He uses a plethora of self-imagery and examples form other psychology areas to drive his point across. By using the quote; “Technique,

This, like many texts, helps focus on the inner-self and where certain desires must be met and achieved. Even Abrahams says, you don’t perform under pressure overnight; it comes with discipline and proper training. (Abrahams, 2741) One of the things Abrahams does well is the use of stories to help obtain his point. He uses stories of his professional consultants along with his personal connections of Barry and Batman (Abrahams, 2682) (2 more personal not known as well stories). He also does an excellent job of helping cope with certain mental barriers such as ANTS or Automatic Negative Thoughts (Abrahams, 2781). This is something that a coach in high school, all the way up to the pros could use and be successful. The only objection that I would suggest is the placement of the stories. He starts very specific and elite level, and breaks down into smaller and more specific stories. Even though he makes this alignment work, I believe if he built-up to the idea of why (insert famous footballer here) made (insert this mistake here) would have been more successful. This would help the reader help digest and analyze the situations without being told them right away, since they would already have that information from previous