The Guidetti Way?
John Guidetti U21 Sweden www.gp.se
We are all waiting for the European Championship thats start in a few days. The Swedish national U21 football team became World Champions in the last tournament and there is a some factors that made it possible. The team was one of the less played team in the betting companies and didn’t have so much chance to win any game at all. One of the players that have a strong belief in whats possible is John Guidetti who was in the successful team of U21 in there last tournament and now a part of the national team of Sweden.
Why did they win?
How come they played over there capacity?
How is that possible?
What’s the description or model you need to work with to be your best?
When I met Håkan Ericsson in Örebro who was the trainer of the team he gave me a few ideas of why they did win. I was impressed over his leadership and not so much of what he said, it was the way he said it! There a a lot of models you can follow but they only learn you the structure and what you need to think about.
I think if you want to be a great leader you have to put the athletics in the middle of your attention and at same time you have high expectations and thoughts of them. Its not so easy to place the athletics in the middle because you need a few communication skills like active listening, emphatic, coaching, calmness and vocabulary. To be a great leader is a hard work of training, practicing and learning by doing and when you have the competence in your body then you can start to can place the athletics in the middle.
The brain can’t focus on two things at the same time so you need to go from learning to competence to make it possible. Håkan Ericsson is a leader with high competence in leadership and he mix it with a strong belief to make the impossible into possibilities.
Its all about your belief and what you think is possible!
If you as a trainer think its possible and you can feel it in your body and live it, there is a big possibility that your players and co-trainer can feel it. If they can feel it I think the perform even better then they can think. The team lived after a quote from the professor Lars-Eric Uneståhl who is the grounder of Mental training.
”You can’t use the word impossible about the future”
Lars-Eric Uneståhl
Why can’t you be the best version of you?
Who said that?
Is it true?
If you were John Guidetti how should you handle it?
If you are a leader and was in Håkan Ericsson’s shoes how would you handle it?
Publicerad av Ronnie Lindahl
Ronnie är utbildad elittränare med vidareutbildning inom team och business coachning, mental träning/prestationspsykologi på masternivå samt inom neurolingvistisk programmering NLP. Ronnie har haft glädjen att vara med i teamet som bidrog till Tyresö FFs SM-guld i Damallsvenskan samt Telge Energis SM Guld i Basketligan.