UCFB Future Sport 2018
UCFB is delighted to present Future Sport – its inaugural magazine packed full of highlights of UCFB graduates in the workplace and exclusive interviews with the biggest names in sport. The issue is led by England manager Gareth Southgate, who with a World Cup just around the corner gave us his thoughts on leadership and the importance of education for a modern day coach. Sky Sports’ Hayley McQueen, Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino and Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers also feature. UCFB graduates feature heavily throughout the issue, showcasing their skills and talent in the workplace at clubs and organisations including The Football Association, Watford FC, Sky Sports and the Evening Standard. Future Sport also takes an in-depth look at London’s relationship with the NFL, and compares the promotion of big boxing events and the contrasting promotional styles of former heavy-weight world champions Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye.
UCFB is delighted to present Future Sport – its inaugural magazine packed full of highlights of UCFB graduates in the workplace and exclusive interviews with the biggest names in sport.
The issue is led by England manager Gareth Southgate, who with a World Cup just around the corner gave us his thoughts on leadership and the importance of education for a modern day coach. Sky Sports’ Hayley McQueen, Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino and Celtic boss Brendan Rodgers also feature.
UCFB graduates feature heavily throughout the issue, showcasing their skills and talent in the workplace at clubs and organisations including The Football Association, Watford FC, Sky Sports and the Evening Standard.
Future Sport also takes an in-depth look at London’s relationship with the NFL, and compares the promotion of big boxing events and the contrasting promotional styles of former heavy-weight world champions Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye.
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GARETH SOUTHGATE
“ASK ANY SPORTS PERSON
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE
AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL…
IT’S THE MENTAL SIDE OF
THE GAME”
Encourage:
Southgate is
keen to see
psychology used
more in football
Football and psychology
The use of psychology within sport is becoming more
prevalent, resulting in increasing opportunities for a career in
the sector. The England boss now wants football to follow the
likes of tennis and take advantage of these skills…
Regularly considered one of the
game’s more forward thinking
characters, Southgate called
on football to embrace the use of
psychologists in a similar way to other
sports during his chat with us.
Stating individual sports in
particular had defined and
embraced the role of psychology
in their game in a way that football
still hasn’t, Southgate is adamant
that having the correct mentality
at the highest level makes the
ultimate difference to performance.
The Three Lions boss said:
“I’ve used and worked with sport
psychologists as a player and as a
coach, so I recognise the value of it.”
He added: “Within football the
role hasn’t necessarily been really
defined, whereas in other sports it’s
a lot clearer. The likes of tennis and
golf have been far more open to the
use of psychologists. If you ask any
sports person or any coach what’s
the difference at the highest level,
it’s the mental side of the game. So
why wouldn’t we try and train that,
and why wouldn’t we try and work
to improve that?”
The last two decades has seen
dedicated sport psychologists
become more commonplace in
football, when once it was perhaps
a taboo subject for players to use
such practices to improve their
performance. Arsenal appointing
Arsene Wenger as manager in 1996
is largely seen as the breakthrough
moment.
Though admitting he doesn’t have
all the answers for how the game
should embrace psychology further,
Southgate is determined to see it
utilised more effectively.
“I don’t have an ideal model of
what it should look like,” he said.
“But there is real value in having
an understanding of how people
think, how you think as an athlete
and why you do the things you
do. It’s important to understand
yourself better first and foremost,
then understand why you might
react or how you might react in
certain situations and how you
might affect that to improve your
performance.
“I think these are really key if you
want to be a top player.”
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