True mental strength requires a special mixture of mental qualities. A great coach like Jürgen Klopp can also motivate a team to achieve exceptional performance, because he himself has real mental strength. Only in this way can he transfer this. His own authenticity and positivity creates an attraction that leads to people, in this case his players, wanting to intuitively connect with him. This ultimately creates a particularly powerful link between the trainer and the team. The counterpart to the trainer in sport is the manager in business. The mechanisms of a successful pull, an “inspirational leadership” through mental strength, are the same as in sport.
In this book I will show the particularly relevant criteria for mental strength and also reflect on their effective interaction. The corresponding knowledge and methods can be used consistently in sports, in business and in private life. »Mental giants – what really defines true strength« should support you to get to know the wonderful possibilities of mental strength, which are often amazingly easy to use to lead a happy, healthy and successful life yourself in a positive and balanced way.
Speaking of success: a few weeks after the sensational coup, Jürgen Klopp and his Liverpool FC also won the Champions League final in Madrid in an all-English duel with 2-0 against Tottenham Hotspur. After a 15-year dry spell, the most important trophy in European club football was brought back to Anfield. In the 2019/20 season, Liverpool FC dominated the English championship almost at will. Jürgen Klopp will always have a place of honor in the history of the glorious traditional club.
Historical sports giants: Analysis talk with a reporter legend
It is March 17, 2020, 11:30 a.m. I was really looking forward to it – to the conversation with Hartmut Scherzer, reporter legend who holds a world record as a sports journalist in terms of the number of reports he reports on major events. Hartmut Scherzer has been in Chile since 1962 at all 15 soccer world championships, since 1964 in Tokyo at 21 Olympic Games and since 1977 even 33 times in the Tour de France as a sports reporter. Always close to the most successful. Since 1963, when Muhammad Ali was still called Cassius Clay while boxing against Henry Cooper in London and was not yet a world champion, Hartmut Scherzer has experienced 16 Ali fights live on the ring. These included the fight against Karl Mildenberger in Frankfurt in 1966 as well as the legendary fights after Ali’s comeback against Joe Frazier in 1971 and 1974 in the traditional Madison Square Garden in New York and in 1974 the sensational “Rumble in the Jungle” against George Foreman in Kinshasa and the Third fight against Joe Frazier, the “Thrilla in Manila”, in 1975.
Hartmut Scherzer is 82 years old, his schedule is still full, we have known each other privately for several years. We actually wanted to meet in person for the very special mental sports stories, but because of the upcoming corona pandemic, we decided to make a phone call as a precaution.
“Hartmut, who are the mentally outstanding athletes you have met in your own career, and what distinguishes or distinguishes them?” I ask. I immediately notice his enthusiasm when he starts to speak. It didn’t need a single more question in our hour-long phone call. Everything is there, so much knowledge about the greats of the sport.
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