What to do after a defeat of football? How to react?

What to do after a defeat of football? You know these sad days, these bitter evenings, these post-telling moments in which the 90 minutes are inexorably reduced. Immediately, regret gives way to bitterness and distinguishing its path in this fog can be difficult to see condemned for subsequent deadlines. Today you understand that I am interested in managing defeat and emptiness.

In the face of adversities, people adopt different behavior. Like when they come from a stressful deadline (final and decisive game …) some of your players will be very concentrated in their silence, others will be exuberant, evacuating stress in language. During a difficulty your players (and yourself) will be in this same logic.

What to do after a defeat of football

After the defeat

The reaction after a defeat will depend on the approach that the player will have of his sport. Pressure Result at all costs, performance will lead to total frustration. So the stage of the self-reflective of doubt will finally arrive. The rebound will therefore be long and painful with a difficult training resumption and participation in new competitions. On the other hand, if the player bases his approach to sport in priority on notion of pleasure(and football is a game that I remind you), It will bounce more easilyBecause he will want to resume his sporting practice, failures are not the end of his sport.

You have to accept that the defeat is part of the game.

Time most often in life will be your ally. You have to take the time to digest a defeat and analyze your game well. You have to see what has still worked and understand what hasn’t worked. Always with kindness in the positive. Because the best is Let the positive come out and focus on it.

The importance of the mind

As often in life, the mind can play tricks on you. Responsible for very beautiful things that can also weigh you after a bad passage. After a defeat, the player will be demoralized, he could feel anything, not trust him more than him. Nevertheless …

Technically and physically, it is the same as before the defeat. His skills are identical, the same skills that made him win before. The defeat can be attributed to a multitude of factors: tactical errors, fleeting effort, ultra efficient opponent. You will only have this impression if you think! Instead of torturing your mind by ruminating this defeat, you have to use the analysis of this game to work the weak points even more.

If we start from the principle that winning or losing is not a goal, but which is a journey, the defeat is easier to live “and the player can bounce more easily. But all this digestion of defeat improving the sporting past rather than victory at all costs can be made difficult by external pressure: sponsor, media, entourage. As if from now on the defeat was prohibited and that we absolutely had to get the victory (with a nice game)

This acceptance of defeat as a step to progress better, in favor of an interrogation it must be inculcated from an early age.

You have to understand that explaining what a defeat will allow your players to think of yourself how to improve and not to blame yourself for a poor performance. The notion of pleasure must prevail and you should not take as a hard and relentless sanction of the defeat, but as a step, an awareness of small defects.

This requires talking to your players and not being in repression or systematic criticisms that is not constructive when the player does not understand what is asked. On the contrary, it is a blocking factor. And you absolutely must avoid them!

The goalkeeper’s example is perfect in our case.

Here’s how to manage it:

A goalkeeper always knows the gnocchi he has done, there is no need to remind him. He has already analyzed this moment, he repeated the action 10,000 times. It is necessary to make a reminder later two, three weeks later. The analysis will therefore be cold, without feelings of frustrations and failure. You can therefore establish a simple observation and your goalkeeper will be reassured by the services between this game and the analysis. It is absolutely necessary to support it when everything is bad. . So if there is no miraculous solution to reassemble its psychological state, the means to relaunch a goalkeeper are the first to prepare it in the next game.: There is nothing better than reproducing as quickly as possible to avoid ruminating.

So don’t blame yourself for defeat is part of the game. Forgive, analyze and go back to work!

And how do you manage an empty step from one of your players, of yourself?