This intervention by Julio Velasco helps me explain how I understand the concept of "sport."
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Carlo
Nothing to do:
the first win and win against ourselves. And after this first victory, we can already begin to have a winning mentality, why do we overcome our faults, and yet we have not beaten any team.
The second step is to win against the difficulties , which is another thing to us, because when I speak I speak of the limits of our personal limitations, in addition to the team, does not reduce in general. Then there are other difficulties of any kind that we resolve that we must beat.
Our team is now internationally known for a fact that seems trivial, but it is not: we are famous why do not you ever complain. seems little, but not cheap. You can check all the newspapers from 89 now, not ever after a defeat that we say: "It was the time zone, we had a player with indigestion, we slept badly, the referee ..." Never. I did not say never. Why? Because even this behavior is part of the winning mentality. Anyone can explain why we did not manage to do one thing, few are able to do it anyway. And this must be overcome even small difficulties. For example, we are one of the few Italian teams that when they go abroad you do not bring back spaghetti, olive oil, ham, coffee machine. .. They say: "Poor things! If you do not have spaghetti for lunch get depressed," but after you have to play against Brazil twenty-five thousand, screaming from beginning to end, and there we should not depressing, because we are hard, we win. For other things but we are not so hard. It's a little 'how to prepare the army for the war, according to a five-star hotel: "We are in a five-star hotel so when we go to war we are in better physical condition." I do not think that this happens.
The transition from the mud of the training is still very difficult to shoot real, but at least we're used to mud is something. So we do not bring the spaghetti, do not we train in ideal places. because if we train where it's always cool, then when we play Cuba, which is warm, we lose. Instead we must win, and where it's cold where it's warm, sempre.Non able to overcome the difficulties leading to
what I call the "culture of excuses", ie the attempt to attribute the reason for our failure to something which does not depend on us. It usually goes back to very big things, structural, historical, gender characteristics of the people ("We Italians are like that, they are in the chromosomes, and then there is nothing to do"). But the culture of alibi also uses more mundane explanations. In volleyball, for example, this occurs: the Spiker, which receives the ball a bit 'disconnected from the network and pulls out, said the shortstop "Please close the ball, the shortstop, who in turn received ball a little detached and raised wrong, turned around and said to Receiving "Guys, the reception!", one that has received the ball from the adversary can not say "Beat it easier," then says "That light gives me in ' eye, "then I have to call the electrician, instead of coaching. By adopting the culture of alibi eliminates the possibility of using the feedback, which is the basis
learning.
The third level of victory is to win against opponents , and here comes the problem of quality, our own and others, and the measurement problem. In this sense, the statistics we need not to trust the simple impressions and also to measure what we need to improve.
Quality research does not mean the pursuit of perfection, because that idea of \u200b\u200bperfection is the loser, for the simple reason that you can not reach it. If they claim perfection, we obtain the result that the player, seeing that it fails, it begins to be regarded negatively, because it does not reach the obiettivoche we gave him. One of the tasks of a real coach is able to identify where improvement is needed among all those who are playing decisive victory.
This means setting priorities, and I think it's one of the hardest things to do . but setting priorities is the only way to steer the process that leads to victory. Of all the flaws of the players need to identify three. and those necessary to "hammer", as long as you do not get the breakthrough. while others touch them. but we can not expect the same level for all 10 applicazione.Vorrei also say something about the method. a method, without the specific knowledge, deeper than what one does, is an empty box. We as a team we have applied a method, but the real reason for we made a quantum leap is that the team plays better, and why should a team play better knowing that her volleyball coach, before psychology, and other methods. It must therefore be the method, but above all the knowledge. Julio Velasco
