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Sport psychology has existed for around a hundred years, becoming widely accepted in the 1960s.

Nowadays, managers play mind games with their fellow managers, and psychology is the most recent scientific discipline to be accepted by the sporting community as a potentially match-winning coaching ingredient.

An applied sport psychologist Roberto Forzoni said that the physical sports sciences are a given at sports clubs for increasing player fitness, speed and skill.

So one of the methods of helping to inspire player confidence is working on a PhD about the positive effects the video.

Psychologists put together videos that players can then carry around on sportsman’s iPods or other handheld gizmos – with inspirational music, shots of them and their role models playing and scoring goals, slow motion sequences.

It’s designed to boost self-confidence pre-performance.