Let me begin by giving a warm welcome to sports coaches, players and fans from all over the world. We all share a love of sport and the desire to understand and improve performance at whatever level we coach or play.
This Sportsmind website and the performance psychology resources it offers will focus mainly on the psychology of soccer. However the much of the application of performance psychology is common across all sports and I feel there is much of value for everybody – especially team sports – so just cross out soccer and insert your own sport!
Don't be put off by the word 'psychology'. This is not a website for academics, more a source of applied theory - drawing upon sound principles to produce practical ideas, suggestions and solutions for coaches and players at any level. I much prefer to be called a 'stretch' stretching a performance one or two percent by getting attitudes right, rather than a 'shrink' – looking for the deeper causes of problems.
This website and the products on offer are all designed to promote positive winning attitudes and reflect my learning as a result of my personal journey through education, sport and life.
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While in the UK recently during the Olympics, Ted Miller, a Vice President with Human Kinetics, took the opportunity to meet up with Bill. Human Kinetics are the publishers of Bill’s book ‘Focused for Soccer’ which is proving a very...
As many of you know, my work covers a wide range of performance issues – best summed up quite simply as: Helping coaches and players get the best out of themselves and their teams! The aim of the website is...
At the end of April I was in Amsterdam presenting to an enthusiastic audience of more than 60 coaches from all over Holland at a day long conference “Sport Psychology in Football” organised by the NVA (the Dutch Football Academy)...
May 14 -21 sees me in Dallas working with Schellas Hyndman, Head Coach of FC Dallas, his coaching/support team and senior and academy players. The atmosphere in the MLS is exciting and has a vigorous enthusiasm about it. It’s...