The secret weapon that Vicente Moreno has bequeathed to Marcelino

“For me, mental preparation is more important than physical conditions and talent“. He affirmed it in this newspaper Sergi Darder, one of the many footballers who have been breaking absurd taboos by acknowledging that they have resorted to psychologists to optimize its performance. Today that is one of the keys to Athletic Club, capable of reaching Super Cup final from Spain, and from down to Barcelona and Real Madrid of the Copa del Rey, before receive Espanyol this Monday. But it was also, embodied in the same person, the current parakeet technician, Vincent Moreno.

Jose Carrascosa is the name of secret weapon of Marcelino García Toral, with whom Moreno had the opportunity to work long before. And to caress with him Nàstic de Tarragona a incredible promotion to First Division, the 2015-16 season, only usurped in the promotion against Osasuna. One of the pioneers of sports psychology in Spain, in addition to pedagogue and professor of Secondary Education. “Is a engineer who knows how to lead the group very well“, Carrascosa highlighted about Moreno, years ago, in Tarragona Ràdio. “He is a highly qualified coach in the sports development of the team, but also in the human aspect,” he added.

In that Nastic, Carrascosa helped the players who asked for it, especially the most youths, but also worked hand in hand with the ctechnical team, instructing them in motivation and conflict management that usually arise during a season. The same thing he does with Athletic, together with a Marcelino who recruited him last summer after having previously coincided with him at Valencia.

Seville, Levante, Valladolid, Rayo Vallecano, Oviedo, Castellón, Sabadell and Alicante in men’s soccer, in addition to Ros Casares in the Women’s Basketball League and the Spanish Paralympic Committee They are part of the experience of this psychologist who has individually advised tennis players, swimmers, motorists, cyclists and even bowlers.

In one of the articles in the magazine he leads, ‘Know how to compete‘, Carrascosa points out something that is worth both Moreno and Marcelino, despite the very opposite moments in which both coaches arrive at this Monday’s meeting: There are no longer bosses, but leaders, with an authority that is not based on orders but on the management of emotions. And, from his eyes, both the coach of Espanyol and Valencia are.