Football games are all about scoring goals and being winners. As a result, football can be a mirror of life because many humans also want to achieve goals and become winners in the game of life. There is much to be learned about life in general from football players, managers and commentators.

When you listen to commenters about a football match, the keywords they use repeatedly when a team wins are words about character and attitudes such as confidence, excitement, confidence, effort, and so on. Soccer skills and strategy are important but mean nothing without the right attitude to the betting market .

The team manager encourages his players to show focus, determination and maximum effort. They tell them that they should expect to win and not show too much respect to their opponents no matter how famous they are.

I love listening to comments from great football managers. They’ve all been to hell and back again. They are praised and popular when their team wins. They were criticized and even fired when their team failed to win. They know the peaks of joy and the depths of despair. They have to find a way to deal with both and keep motivating their team to win.

Gordon Strachan took over as manager of Celtic, one of the top two clubs in Scotland, in 2005. It wasn’t long before he had “the worst night of my life”

Bratislava beat Celtic 5-0 in the Champions League, Europe’s top competition. His watch stopped after the game and he still wears it to remind himself that it was the worst night of his life. Celtic, the pride of Scotland, have been humiliated by a lesser-known team.

The other failures seemed small to him in comparison. We can all learn to deal with difficult situations by reminding ourselves of the worst situations in our past or by imagining how much worse our lives are than they really are.

None of us know for sure what will happen to us tomorrow. We can get very sick or even die. Gordon had faced this possibility. He told the media that on his tombstone he wanted these words engraved:

“This is better than that night in Bratislava.”

He uses excessive humor to deal with media criticism when things go wrong. A reporter commented when his team lost the game in Scotland:

“Bang, here is your unbeaten record. Can you accept it?”

“No,” said Strachan. “I will be crushed like a shipwreck. I’m going home,
being an alcoholic and maybe jumping off a bridge. Hmmm …. I think I can
take it, yes. ”

He knows the importance of positive thinking if you want to be successful.
A reporter stupidly asked: “No negative vibes or negative feelings here?”