Had the triumph with FCSB undesirable side effects for Dinamo? The “dogs” could not repeat with Metaloglobus the enthusiastic performance of the derby of Romania, resulting in a stumbled victory, without glory, on the newly promoted landwhich could equal in a second half in which the red-whites did not exist!
In the press conference at the end of the match, the coach of Bucharest, Zeljko Kopic, explained the mood observed in the lot in recent days: “The team has suffered in difficult times (…) My feeling from the outside is that, from a mental point of view, we were exhausted, but also physically tired. We were not good enough in the second half to display our football. ”
The Croatian was completed by Cîrjan: “I think I gave everything to the match with FCSB. Each of us wanted this victory, and that was felt tonight. We must take it over, to see where we were wrong and to look better with UTA.”
Wilfred Moke, the man who repairs the morale of the dynamovists
Dinamo has changed this summer the mental name of the coach that collaborates with the team. Instead of Vicentiu Ostafi, a consecrated personal development coach, Andrei Nicolescu employee Wilfred Moke, 37, former footballer at Rapid, FC Voluntari and FCSB.
What is the exact role that Moke plays at Dinamo? In addition to the invasive and collective discussions worn with the players, The Frenchman monitors everything that moves to the team, being careful including the human relationships between the players and the chemistry they develop in the field.
In Clinceni, throughout the match with Metaloglobus, Moke took notes from the stands, following each movement of his “disciples”. Involved, the former footballer rose on several occasions, shouting in the direction he wanted to encourage. Moke also went to the locker rooms to keep the players in mind, being constantly accompanied by the team's nutritionist, Javier Rodriguez.
Wilfred Moke, on the left, along with nutritionist Javier Rodriguez / Photo: Cristi Preda (GSP)
Necessity or moft? The specialist consulted by GSP assures: “A mental coach can help you see the challenges differently”
Mihaela Jeremic, a former performance volleyball player, currently mentally coach, recently explained, in an interview for the Sports Gazette, some of the secrets of her profession, one with an increasing popularity in the Romanian sport:
“It is not necessary to have a challenge to work with a mental coach. Working with a mental coach can help you see the challenges differently before it appears, guides you to form a healthy mentality, set the right goals.
It is absolutely necessary [să colaborezi cu un mental coach] And I do not say it because I do this now, but I say it because I see what the athletes can when I choose to work on the mental side, so I am glad when I see in the press the high -level athletes who talk about the importance of mental workouts.
A mental coach focuses on developing athletes's mental skills to improve emotions, emotion and concentration. It uses techniques such as visualizing, setting goals and training resilience, but it does not treat clinical problems, ”said Mihaela Jeremic. The full interview can be read here.
