What does a sports psychologist actually do? (w. Alex Stoyel)

Tifo Football Podcast

The Athletic

Football, Soccer,, Sports, Soccer

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Jon Mackenzie is joined by Alex Stoyel to give the audience a better understanding of what it is that a sports psychologist does. What is the difference between other psychologists and sports psychologists? What role can psychologists play in regard to helping with the process of communication between coaches and players? How does a psychologist balance helping maximise performance with the wellbeing of players they work with? How do psychologists help players deal with the mental aspect of injuries? This episode of the Tifo Football Podcast is presented by Jon Mackenzie, produced by Mike Zimmermann. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.0	Hello and welcome to the Tefo football podcast. I am John Mackenzie and I'm joined as I always am by my good friend and producer Mike Zimmerman. Mike how's it going?
1:05.0	It's going well John a lot going on we've got Afghan kicking off Asian Cup the
1:09.7	NFL playoffs over here are about to start so just so much going on so much to be excited about.
1:15.8	And speaking of excitement we have yet another exciting guest here on the TFO football
1:20.2	podcast because this week I was lucky enough to talk to Alex Stoyle who is a
1:23.5	sports psychologist who works for a company called Optimize Potential. We had a lot to talk
1:28.1	about in terms of the more mental aspects of football and Mike you've just listened
1:32.2	to that conversation what did you take away from it?
1:34.3	Well I think the timing of this episode is great because you know one of the biggest
1:37.3	story lines right now is Jadin Sancho's loan to Dortmund from Manchester United And we saw that relationship breakdown
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