Football Psychology

Name: Football Psychology
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138287495
Price: 282.0 NZD
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Football Psychology offers a thorough and empirically grounded exploration of the psychological factors influencing the learning, playing, and coaching of football. It covers vital themes such as personality, motivation, cognition, emotion, coaching dynamics, team essentials, psychological skills for performance, and youth player development. Featuring insights from international researchers, each chapter combines literature reviews, key theories, practical examples, and applications, making it an essential resource that bridges research with real-world football practice.
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This book is ideal for students, researchers, and professionals in sports psychology and football coaching who seek a comprehensive and research-based understanding of football's psychological aspects.

This is the first book to comprehensively map the psychology of learning, playing and coaching the world’s favourite sport, and is essential reading for any student, researcher or professional in the area.

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Presenting an empirically underpinned synthesis of research and theory, while offering guidance for applied practitioners, this is the first book to comprehensively map the psychology of learning, playing, and coaching the world’s favourite sport.

The book provides a complete analysis of key topics that capture the broad range of football psychology such as personality, motivation, cognition, and emotion; coaching and team essentials; psychological skills for performance enhancement; and developing players in youth football. Including contributions from a range of international researchers, each chapter offers a review of the relevant literature, key theories, real-world examples, and reflections on how knowledge can be applied in practice.

Split into four sections, the book covers a diverse range of topics relevant not only to coaching and performance but also to personality development and health promotion.

Essential reading for any student, researcher, or professional in the area, Football Psychology is the most cutting-edge overview of how psychology can explain and improve the way football is both played and understood.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138287495

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 June 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 9 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Erkut Konter
Edited by Jürgen Beckmann
Edited by Todd M. Loughead

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 793g

Pages: 362

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Coaching & Motivation Education & Reference Football Non-Fiction Sports

About the Author

Erkut Konter has various degrees specializing in Sport Psychology and Football. He has more than 30 years' experience as a sport psychology consultant and football coach at national and international levels. He has a number of publications on football psychology and is currently at the Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey.

Jürgen Beckmann is Professor and Chair of Sport Psychology at Technical University of Munich, Germany and Honorary Professor of the University of Queensland, Australia. He is a former president of the German Association of Sport Psychology. He has been consultant to numerous elite athletes and teams since 1987 including professional football teams of the German Bundesliga.

Todd M. Loughead, PhD, is Professor of Sport and Exercise Psychology in the Department of Kinesiology and Co-Director of the Sport Psychology and Physical Activity Research Collaborative at the University of Windsor, Canada. His current research interests are related primarily to group dynamics including athlete leadership, coaching, cohesion, and team-building. Outside of work, he enjoys coaching both football and ice hockey.