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Pochettino believes motivation is the breeding ground of success

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The pre-game interview with Mauricio Pochettino by Spurs TV on the Official Spurs Website was fascinating, reminding us again about the mental side of the game.



Athletes in all top level sport visualise. take the Rugby World Cup going on at the moment over here and watch when the kicker takes a conversion or a penalty. They prepare and then go into their mental routine and you can see with Owen Farrell how he visualises the trajectory of the kick several times before he actually strikes the ball.

Not only do they visualise though, they feel as well. Human being are emotional creatures, football is an emotional game, being able to harness that emotion and use it to your advantage is just another aspect to creating the best sportsman and give the club the best chance of success.

When Tottenham lost the League Cup Final, Mauricio Pochettino brought the player out to watch Chelsea lift the trophy not to enjoy the occasion, but to 'feel' the emotion of defeat. he wanted them to see the joy, the jubilation and want it, he wanted them to feel the despair of defeat so that the players will want to get to another final. Next time they will want to taste victory even more, they will be reminded and made to feel the emotions of defeat again to use them to motivate and inspire victory.

It's educating the mind and harnessing emotion to create an individual and team environment of success, a determination that it will not happen again. The head controls the body, the head controls the feet, the head controls the vision, the head controls the decision making, control the head and you control the game.

Mumbo jumbo, Mauricio Pochrttino and Tottenham Hotspur don't think so, nor does any successful sportsman.

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12 comments

  1. Some good its done them. Limp performance from a limp team selected by a limp manager hired by a plonker
  2. Go and support the Sugar Daddy of your choice.
    • It was you Clive who accuses others of supporting failure was it not?

      Contradicting yourself again are we?
    • You bitterly going on about your Sugar Daddies again Clive?

      #Obsessed
  3. No, nothing bitter at all, I can see a bigger picture that's all.
  4. No contradiction at all, clearly you are not familiar with how motivation or success work, you have to experience failure bfore you can experience success, everyone in life has. You remember the emotion of failure and use it to motivate gor success, simple.
    • What makes you ignorantly assume that?

      I am a Manager in a large company having worked my way up from ground level via 3 promotions in 6 years, i own my own house provide for my wife n kids and have money in the bank. And am under 30years old

      I know what it takes to succeed from poor begginings no silver spoons here.

      So what makes you assume im not familiar with success?

      Difference is ive delivered in my life and what i set out to do, it comes from a burning desire to push yourself to be the best you can be.

      Relating this to Spurs do we really show hunger desire for anything? Do we deliver?
    • Regardless of the interchange above, I think you're quite a bit overly critical of Poch, Levy and the team. Tottenham have no business finishing above the rest of the mid table teams. You're hardly a global brand and you have no major investor yet you are consistently pushing for top four in a league where Champions league qualification via 4 spots is harder than any other. Levy is an astute businessman and that's what you need in football being that at its core, football is now and has been a business venture ever since those involved began getting paid. Of course the football itself can't be ignored and put on the back burner but that's a balancing act that any business has to consider. An act which Levy has performed well at. Pochettino has been a success at Southampton and they wanted to keep him. Remember that they are no small club, having brought in a manager of Koemans stature. Finishing fifth and a cup final in your first season, with little transfer inves…
  5. Chiefs and Indians, Indian at whatever level work to make the chief rich, tied to signing their tune, working to their hours, when they say you earn. Success is being that chief, what you would call success is really only relative success. Depends what your goals are and what standards you set as to how you define success, but if you have achieved what you determine to be success it makes your comments that show e lack of understanding of how true suvccess is achieved surprising. In football terms what you are saying you have achieved is mid table status, not different from millions of others, in football terms you haven't won the Premier League or qualifing for the Champions League, or indeed the Europa League. Your aim is survival in the Premier League, you eed more to go to the next level, the level we want to be at and the level of success we want to achieve. Your 'relative success' should have taught you that.
  6. And Spurs are just bursting with success arent they?
  7. So you still haven't grasped what a strategy is then and that you work your strategy to succeed, explains a lot.
  8. I wonder how embarrassed the 'Unknown's above feel now, or if they even have the critical honesty to appreciate how wrong they've been proven to be.

    Clive's still here and, with a few exceptions, even his earlier posts and comments show how bang-on he was even then.

    COYS!!