- Hello guys, this is Gabriel Carrera,
from 10X Soccer Performance.
So today we're going to talk about, great topic,
it's a simple one but it's really really important.
So, it's about, how to be confident in soccer.
I know, I know, when we grow up as kids, we tend to
you know, we try new stuff, we try to dribble the ball,
we're passing around, sometimes we don't,
we get encouraged by our teammates
and sometimes we don't, you know, that's normal.
Okay, we don't know how to react
from a comment by a coach, by a parent,
that's putting pressure to you.
When you're a kid you're not used to this stuff.
Somebody else that puts pressure on you to perform,
to do well, maybe the parents are too passionate
about the game and they want to put pressure on you.
So, as a kid, you play well, you do one practice
you're confident, but once a few parents, or the coaches,
or teammates start putting pressure on you,
your confidence goes down and then, you know,
you start playing bad, you know, that's part I think,
part of the game, that process that
some players, or many players have to go through
to get that confidence back and to be able to,
not to listen to what other people say,
and just to focus on yourself.
I think that's the most important stuff about
how to be confident.
You have to really believe, believe in yourself,
you have to learn how to focus when you're playing.
Sometimes we have a lot of noise around.
There's going to be, parents yelling at you,
coaches yelling at you, teammates yelling at you,
soccer's about, it's a lot of passion involved and so,
that's normal, so you got to get used to it,
you got to be able to practice.
Okay, so let's say, you have a bad game,
I'll give you an example, you're having a bad game,
and your confidence goes down, yeah, that's it,
you have to be able to just go, let it go,
let it go that experience, you did a bad game, that's it.
What you can do
is say to yourself is that you had a bad game
but now you have a chance to go to the practice again
and be able to improve whatever you did wrong.
Okay, so, whatever happens here, and we're in the game,
and we lost, we didn't have a chance,
the referee did something, that's out of our control.
We can not do anything about it.
Or maybe you had a bad performance.
That some of the stuff we're going to pull our confidence down
but if we learn to concentrate, to focus,
to let go all that stuff once it is the past,
and go forward, then we'll be able to concentrate on what
we can work and what we can improve to become better.
So guys, make sure, like I said,
any level, from the kids, from teenagers, adults,
any level, even professional sports,
sometimes they'll be times you're going to get your confidence
down, that you'll be down, but you have to get up.
You have to look up and go forward to a better,
better improvement, better improvement about yourself,
so, that's the key.
The key is improvement about yourself.
If you improve more, you see yourself on the field
in your practice, if you see once you get to the practice
you get to feel that you score goals,
or you start performing better because you're
putting hours in it, then you get more confidence at it.
And sometimes in life, or during the soccer game,
your going to have,
like I said, from the referee, a bad call
that's going to influence your ability to win,
and you're going to lose, you can't do anything about it so,
stop complaining about people and this and that.
Just, keep it to yourself, keep it for,
keep improving with yourself, keep working with yourself
and then go, go on the field, go on the field
and do what you have to do on the field.
Don't complain, don't look for, oh your teammates that
their doing bad stuff, oh he's doing bad pass to me,
that's why we lost, no don't complain about that stuff.
Focus on yourself, focus on yourself,
and that's where you're going to play your best game.
That's when you're going to be confident, because
it doesn't matter if that guy make you a bad pass
and you missed.
It doesn't matter if the ref made a bad call,
but you, you keep improving, you keep trying, scoring goals.
You score goals and your team lost, what,
that gives you confidence, and you know that you can
maybe win next time.
So guys, make sure you stay positive, that's the key.
And go look for our book at BestSoccerTricks.com.
Again I said, Best Soccer Tricks dot com,
that's a key website where you can find the book,
it's a great book, where you can find a lot of information
about soccer and please, thank you for watching.
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