Fellows Book Online Version 2020

45 realize their best performance ever as a team. He underlined the cross-sectional message regarding the transfer between failure and knowledge. He added as well that to be the underdog in an event, having less pressure, can facilitate the risk decision. Emotion, automatization and improvisation are part of performance. Chris and Fred brought together the concept of “Being in the Zone” and “Flow” as a state of grace that allow you the perform at your best in the right moment. Carlo was asking: “Can we train to reach this one?” The answer from Chris was: “As needed in Football, can we reach the zone on a weekly basis or at less often?” As the last concept to discuss, Chris spoke about the common dream highlighted by Jean Charles: “To enter into history.” This dream is like a never-ending goal that does not stop after achieving a target such as a gold medal. “The dream can guide your effort, added Marco: “You can spend all your energy to achieve this dream.” Finally, Carlo explained how England, that was an underdog in the Olympic games, became one of the best nations following investment on sport science and bringing discipline in training. This helped but talents were still needed. Antonio Pintus (FC Internazionale Milano) started by highlighting that everything is about faith and confidence between teammates first, but also with the full staff working around the athletes. And the question came up to all Fellows involved in this workshop: How to build a trustful environment that is going to support player development? On the same topic, following a question from Mark Onderwater (Feyenoord), Jean-Charles explained that the time spent outside of the training slot was crucial for all athletes and staff to create this environment. Those moments contributed to establish strong relationships and trust between all of them. Grant Heywood (LA Galaxy) and Matt Allen (Tottenham Hotspur) contributed to develop the idea that our role as youth football coaches had similar challenges in bringing together individual goals within a team environment. Building team unity and chemistry to help achieve team success all while tailoring to each individual and their development. On the same note, Antonio was speaking about the importance to feel and to act as an educator when we are working with youth athletes. He said that “we can speak about respect, sacrifice, leadership but it’s too easy to train highly motivated players: a very good coach should find the way to train the less motivated players to the best level.” Chrisitan Fail (Red Bull Salzburg), brings this phrase used in Red Bull: “Mindset brings us into the next level and talent brings us to the start.” This tell us that we need to use every lesson to perform and to be better. That is more important than to play or not. Young players should understand that everything done in the Academy and everything they can do is for themselves, not for others. Fernando Valente (FC Shakhtar Donetsk) highlighted the importance of trust inside the pitch, of trust with the club but even more between people outside of the field “high level of performance needs a high level of relationship. And with young players, these good relationships between players will support them to grow and achieve a high level. In short, create good people, good person, strong personality, transmit values, his on top of good this on top of being a good player player.” Antonio expressed the importance of athletes learning to vizualise the victory. He brought another important topic that can lead us to the success: to listen to our intuition. “The true is not only inside books or university but also inside our feeling. So we need to stay connected to our feeling to be creative and make the right decision.” This was an interesting discussion around work/talent ratio, the necessity to create a trustful and confident environment, dreams, and the art of coaching came into the mind of our Fellows.