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What we can learn from football and apply to life. Champions

Postby The Shamen » Fri Apr 11, 2014 11:45 am

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It doesn't matter whether you support Crawley Town, Man City or Acrington Stanley – we can all learn from the ambition and psychological flair of the special one, Jose Mourinho. In Mourinho's pre-Champions League game press conference with his Chelsea team 2-0 down against Paris St Germain, Mourinho demonstrated his trademark belief and psychological strength. Some would think that Chelsea were facing an uphill struggle in overturning a two goal disadvantage against an inform (and similarly expensively assembled team), but not Mourinho. With his and his sides backs against the wall he showed why for so long he has been known as “the special one.”

In the press conference Mourinho gave the following perspective: “at 7:30pm we go into the game still with a chance and with the destiny and outcome in our own hands. At 7:30pm we start the game with smiles on our faces. At 9pm (when the game has ended) we will see if we still are in the competition. We will see whether we still have the smile on our faces. Nobody knows what will happen. We will see.” Mourinho preserved his teams destiny by claiming that his team would decide for themselves their own destiny. It was a brilliant master-stroke to reverse the pessimism and turn an obstacle into an opportunity. Mourinho levelled the fixture in the minds of his players. It was within their own hands.

Come 9pm on Tuesday night and it was Mourninho's team who were still in the competition and who “still with smiles on their faces” having won the match 2-0 against PSG (and also having also hit the bar and post with twice with efforts). Such psychological strength is what determines such fixtures. Belief is critical in all walks of life and at all levels of football.

When Mourinho began his second tenure at Chelsea FC he lamented the lack of a winning mentality. Some 6 months later and his players have been quoted in saying that they “think they can beat anyone”.

Ambition, and creativity characterise Mourinho's individual approach to management and by fast-forwarding to the game itself in his pre-match talk and fixing an attitude of the result being within his own players control he handed a heavy psychological dimension. Fear of failure and the previous disappointing result in the opening leg was turned into a strength and Paris lost to London.

Mourinho has been accused of having an ego. He has been accused of being arrogant. But is psychological strength and healthy thinking something that is bad? Is arrogance instead not to judge others?

There is a poster at Stamford Bridge which proclaims “Mourinho – the best pure and simple.” Having turned around Chelsea into a formidably strong team unit that can overcome adversity because of its mentality is entirely the brainchild of Mourinho, and we can all in this life learn from the viewing of things as either immanent problems or emergent opportunities.



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