How to motivate Footballers

BBC Radio 5Live filmed football confidence coach Tom Bushnell demonstrating a motivation technique to help Football Teams win soccer matches. The team is AFC Wimbledon reserves coached and led by Marcus Gayle a former Premier League player for Wimbledon FC. Watch how quickly the players go from neutral to absolute confidence and certainty in lightning quick time. After doing this they won 4-1.

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Marcus Gayle & Tom Bushnell: Confidence in Football

Marcus Gayle in his Playing days With a number of Football Clubs

Former Wimbledon Premiership Footballer (Marcus Gayle) and Confidence Coach Tom Bushnell will be interviewed on BBC Radio London 94.9FM at 8.15pm 13th Nov about Confidence in Football.

Practise makes Perfect.....Or does it???

The other night I was coaching an under 16's Football (Soccer) Team. After the session my colleague Chris and I started discussing the dynamics of coaching. The topic of practise came up, and the quote "Practise makes Perfect" was discussed. I'd also heard of the phrase "Perfect practise makes perfect". Chris added another development to this theme and said "practise doesn't necessarily make perfect" but "practise does make permanent".

This got me thinking...If we want to get good at anything then we need to practise. Repetition is the mother of all skill. I agree with what my friend Chris said to me on Monday night that practise does in fact make permanent...and I also agree with what I had heard a friend of mine (Spencer Plummer) many a years ago tell me that "Perfect practise makes perfect".

I think it is a combination of the both. In our own lives if we practise things they will be become permanent. And if we practise those things as perfectly as possible those disciplines and attributes that we are cultivating and developing will be made permanent more perfectly.

I would sum it up in this way:

"Practise makes Permanent" + "Perfect Practise makes Perfect" = "Permanent Perfection"

Get Practising!