Sports Psychology

Dan Abrahams works as a sports psychologist with some of the world's leading professional soccer clubs and organisations. Each month, in his Elite Soccer column, he explores a key aspect of success within a high-performance team helping us to understand and harness the benefits of sports psychology.

Improving the cognitive cycle

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams examines the importance of the cognitive cycle and how coaches can help their players perform at their best “Think ...

Building player confidence

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams examines how to get players to build and sustain their levels of confidence It was the legendary American soccer play...

Looking at the positives

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams examines a different way to do your team’s end of season assessment and start planning for the next campaign The mo...

Player motivation

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams examines the different reasons that motivate players to compete Netflix documentary, ‘The Last Dance’, proved com...

Winning words

Whether you are trying to engage, motivate, coach or reassure your team members, words are your most powerful asset As bite size pieces of advice go,...

Creating feedback loops

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams explains how encouraging players to evaluate their performance can stop them dwelling on their errors As a former g...

Teaching players how to learn

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams explains how coaches can help their players to learn rather than simply perform The distinction between learning and ...

The language of high performance

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams discusses the importance of listening to what players are saying and the way they say it I’ve always really admired...

A vital question all players must answer

What do players do if it’s going wrong? Sports psychologist Dan Abrahams discusses the most important question players must ask themselves A wise p...

How to improve player confidence

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams discusses how a technique called ‘scaling’ can give a struggling player a confidence boost A season in football o...

Psychological safety

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams discusses how creating a psychologically safe environment can help to get the best out of an elite player Back in the...

Developing a mental framework

Sport psychologist Dan Abrahams discusses the importance of giving players the final piece of the performance puzzle “What are you trying to achiev...

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