Talent is not enough when pressure enters the body.
Mental Preparation for Football is a practical guide for players, coaches, and football people who want real tools for handling fear, stress, mistakes, contact, score pressure, and big moments.
Drawing on football, the military, combat sports, Formula 1, climbing, bull riding, and endurance training, Sebastian Ioan shows how to stay useful, reset quickly, and keep your football when everything around you tries to take it away.
Inside, you will learn how to settle or sharpen your state, use breathing and focus tools, recover after mistakes, prepare for pressure before it arrives, and build habits that hold up when the match gets difficult.
In this book:
Practical pressure tools
Match-day routines and resets
Breathing, focus, and recovery methods
Lessons from elite pressure worlds
A working toolbox you can use immediately