Without anyone asking them, footballers will have a major responsibility as soon as the health contingency is in the past and the activity returns to the fields: raising the spirits of the people, giving them hope.
The question is, will they be prepared for that?
The psychologist of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM), Margarita Cerviño , is blunt when she points out that the Liga MX footballers must be backed by good therapy, carried out by professionals, in order to release the pressure that the role of heroes the fans , surely, will award them after the days of confinement.
"The role of footballers is cannon . When this happens, everyone will expect you to lift people up, to start moving them, to give them hope ... it is extremely hard, I would hope that they are all well guided by a psychologist, not a coach, someone who can understand people's mental processes and of the phenomenon of fame and non-fame. Hopefully they have the support of sports psychologists, no one expected this phenomenon, but it is costing us and we have to put a head on it , that they are well advised because if they are going to have a coach who says 'throw him a wish' without understanding what it is to throw him a wish It will not work, ”said Margarita in an interview with AS México.
Accustomed to flattery , placed by their followers on an altar, footballers could be experiencing, thanks to the obligatory confinement, a return to basics, a rediscovery that places them on earthly planes, far from the brilliance of fame.
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This, according to Cerviño, will deliver better professionals.
"After these weeks, I can almost assure you, many soccer players are already entering an earthly space where they are as fragile and flexible as anyone because they cannot maintain their level of prestige when everyone is trying to save what they can. They are already with their children, their partners, there are not a lot of fans around, and they enter a more earthly phase, therefore, I hope this can give them this touch not of humility, that will not happen, but for them to recover the most human part will make them reflect on their physical abilities, the majority must be training very hard, they will give them little time to return and when they return people can eat them, because people are going to want heroes, that they return to save the joy of people, it is a great responsibility ”, he pointed out.
Lastly, the sports psychologist assured that the issue of the partialization or eduction of their salaries due to the stoppage of activities caused the anger of some footballer , it will only be a reflection of their poor intelligence, so this cannot be a pretext to see diminished their performance when they return to the courts.
"If they come back annoyed it is that their intelligence level is very low , if they do not match society it is that they do not have a good psychological preparation, if they get angry because they lack all the money they should be paid, I would ask myself where are the psychologists, the owners, to locate them, to spank them and put them against the wall? ”, he concluded.