How To Get Over A lost Football Game
Rest assured, everyone has some bad days, you and your team are not the only one.
Football and emotions
Let’s face it, not every game is a winner. No, we lose games as well.
It’s all about “how to deal with the emotion”. In a private environment that’s easy, you only deal with yourself. But being part a football team, that’s different. Not only you have to deal with yourself, but the remaining part of your team shares emotions too, you are not the only one.
Football players are not created evenly
Not everyone is created evenly, so will others in my team. I personally can deal with a lost game. A debriefing with the team and a shower is mostly enough to leave it behind. That doesn’t mean I forget, no! The debriefing will most likely highlight our shortcomings, but I have my own experience as well. I take both with me and evaluate them.
The breakdown of a football player
The trick is; to remember your shortcomings and the debriefings. I use this information during the first upcoming training and the next game. If there’re no shortcomings you’ll never learn.
If you breakdown the football player, then three major components come in view;
- Talent must be presence in the core. Training and game experience will be an addition to the talent aspect.
- Team player. Without a team no game! Every player has his own personal goal, become the best. But the key trick in here is; how to combine this within your team.
- Be mentally stable. You can have all the talent, being the best team player, but if you’re mentally not stable than the whole pyramided crumbles down.
To summarize
The moral of the above three bullets; a mental stable football player will recognize the three core components in himself. He/she will balance the part that needs improvement. Talent only is definitely not enough, self-knowledge is equally important.
Nick Kaaijmolen
