Inside the Minds of Football Champions
What great footballers have built — and what you can do with it
By Gildas Garrec
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About this book
Guide de psychologie du sport pour jeunes footballeurs : ce que la recherche identifie, après coup, dans les grandes carrières — sans jamais permettre de prédire à l'avance qui réussira. Un programme TCC de huit semaines pour travailler ce qui, dans ta trajectoire, dépend réellement de toi.
You play, you keep improving, and one question comes back more often than you'd admit: do you have what it takes? This book starts from a finding that should set you free rather than worry you: sport psychology research has identified what distinguishes exceptional careers — after the fact. None of it can predict, in advance, who will make it. No scout, no test, no non-selection can cross you off the list for good. Built not around superstars but around concrete mechanisms — the practice that actually counts, how you respond to an injury or a rejection, the pressure of a match that matters — this book gives you an eight-week program, built on cognitive behavioral therapy tools, to work on the part of your journey that's truly yours. No promise of results. A method for improving, whatever path lies ahead of you.