You can vastly improve your football with a positive mindset. All the top players have the ability to focus positively on their game so that they give their best in every game they play. They shut out any negative thoughts so that they can concentrate on their performance.
Football is not just about talent and ability, it is just as much about having a strong mental attitude and a determined state of mind. It is easy to have a good game when the opposition is weak, it is a sunny day and you are already 3 goals to the good and cruising. Then all your flicks and tricks come off and you feel good about your game.
But when there is a gale force wind and heavy rain driving across the pitch, the opposition are all 6 foot + bruisers, and your particular opponent takes a special delight in kicking you rather than the ball, and likes to have a threatening word in your ear every now and then, then things are a rather different proposition.
So you need to know how to improve your football with a positive mindset in these circumstances.
Firstly, before you go out on the pitch, you need to have visualised the way you want to play. You need to sit quietly and go through all the training moves you have practiced in your mind, act them out in your mind so that you see yourself performing them perfectly. Visualise yourself scoring a goal, the ball rippling in the netting as you lash it home. Try to get into the picture, make it colourful so you feel you are actually out on the pitch.
Also think of yourself up against a hard, tough opponent, he is giving you a lot of grief but you are coming out on top and beating him hands down. See yourself enjoying the battle, positively taking him on and coming out on top.
If you are a penalty or free kick taker, it is very important to have an image of scoring in your mind, exactly where you want the ball to go, and confident in your own mind that you can put it there every time.
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