Sports Psychology Advice

Q4 Sport welcomes Roberto Forzoni as our Sports Psychology consultant and advisor.

 

For more than 20 years, Roberto has been involved in coaching and performance consulting in professional sport. A recognised authority on the psychology of performance, group dynamics, football and tennis psychology, Roberto is a regular speaker on a variety of performance related topics around the world, and holds a lecturing position at Brunel University, consultancy with a Premiership football team and the Bromley Tennis Academy.

 

Roberto has a strong coaching background in football, having started coaching amateur teams in the mid 80s. He progressed to coaching in non-league football, with the likes of Croydon, Chipstead and a thoroughly enjoyable spell at Dulwich Hamlet FC. In the meantime, following an invitation by coach Nick Darvill, he had also started coaching youth Academy football at Charlton Athletic and then Crystal Palace FC, where, what was to be a significant and highly rewarding working relationship began with Steve Coppell.

 

For more information please visit www.robertoforzoni.com

 

Check out some of our Sports Psychology Articles:-

 

1v1 Thinking - Hinks’ Law - The more options or decisions a player has to make – the slower their decision making will be!!  more......

 

Bigger and Better than You? - From a very young age we are competitive. You may remember in the playground hearing or even saying things similar to,” My dad’s car is faster than your dads or my bike has 18 gears not just 12 like yours!”. The one that remains with me is the amount of times we raced as a bet to the other end of the playground! more.....

 

Do You want me to Draw you a picture??????? - How many times have you heard the above heading or comments like it? How many times have we said it about somebody else? more.....

 

Peak Performance - FEELING RELAXED. – It is a common mistake that we should be “psyched up” to play at our best, but research shows us that this is not true. The best state of arousal is slightly above normal and is relaxed but with a feeling of energy. more....

 

Psychologically – A great divide is evident between players that want it and players that don’t. This has been noticed in both amateur and professional teams. more....

 

Arousal Example - It is very important that you assess your level of arousal before a game and to ensure that you are not ‘spent’ before the game has ended. more....