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#324 Tom Bates, EPL and Olympic Sport Psychologist, on How to Compete with Intensity Without Being Tense (Replay)

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The Importance of Performance Psychology in Football

I think sometimes we think of the performance psychologist as the guy in the button down shirt who sits behind a desk and then messes with her mind, right? And that's not it at all, right? You have your UAFA license, which is probably the most difficult license in the world to get from a soccer coaching standpoint. I've watched you work on, you know, on the field and just this idea of how do we incorporate truly the psychological components of practice into the X's and the O's side things. Why do you think it's so important for coaches to do that and why don't more of them do it? There is this skepticism is there surrounding sports psychology performance

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