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Inside the Minds of Football Champions

What great footballers have built — and what you can do with it

By Gildas Garrec · 220 pages · 2026

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. 1What Great Footballers Have Built — And What You Can Do With It
  2. 2Legal Notice
  3. 3Emergency Resources
  4. 4About the Author
  5. 5Also in This Collection
  6. 6Introduction — The Promise, and What Disproves It
  7. 7Chapter 1 — The Ten Thousand Hours Myth
  8. 8Chapter 2 — The Myth of the Early-Born Child
  9. 9Chapter 3 — The Myth of Mental Toughness
  10. 10Chapter 4 — Seeing Before Everyone Else
  11. 11Chapter 5 — The Rocky Road
  12. 12Chapter 6 — Filling a Gap or Extending a Model: Two Drivers
  13. 13Chapter 7 — The Skills You Can Learn
  14. 14Chapter 8 — When Regulation Breaks Down
  15. 15Chapter 9 — Identity Beyond Performance
  16. 16Chapter 10 — The Injury
  17. 17Chapter 11 — Not Making the Team
  18. 18Chapter 12 — The People Around You
  19. 19Chapter 13 — The Match
  20. 20Chapter 14 — What's Not Up to the Individual
  21. 21Chapter 15 — Survivorship Bias
  22. 22Chapter 16 — Why Talent Scouting Gets It Wrong
  23. 23The 8-Week Program — A CBT Protocol for the Six Skills
  24. 24Conclusion — The Only Predispositions You Can Learn
  25. 25Glossary
  26. 26Appendix — Mental Training Journal Template
  27. 27Appendix — Post-Match Self-Assessment Grid
  28. 28Appendix — Questions to Ask a Scout or Academy
  29. 29Bibliography

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