A OTIMIZAÇÃO DO TREINO DE COMPETÊNCIAS PSICOLÓGICAS NO RENDIMENTO DESPORTIVO O futebol e a época desportiva no contexto da pandemia SARS-COV-2

Abstract

Football is the most played sport in the world. Thus, there are several areas of intervention that seek individual and collective performance, in order to answer the demands of the sport. Thus, the curricular internship carried out within of the 2nd Cycle in, taught at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto, took place in the main team of Caldas Sport Clube Sport Psychology and Human Development, taught at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto. The curricular internship was developed in the main team of Caldas Sport Clube, integrating the technical team, cooperating in joint efforts, based on the vision, mission and objectives of the club. This internship had several areas of intervention, namely advisory with the coaches, individual intervention and collaboration with the medical department, based on a scientific knowledge. Throughout this report, two areas will be addressed - intervention and research - that accompany the sports season and my entire internship with the team. The intervention area includes information regarding strategies and methodologies used in the training of psychological skills of athletes and the accessory work with the technical team. This intervention area was developed in the pandemic (SARS-COV-2) context, aiming to investigate this modality in this specific circumstances and likewise its possible influence in the mental abilities of the players, specifically, the investigation aimed learning the impact of the absence of the supporting public on psychological skills of the athletes. To this end, the show had 27 athletes where differences were found in psychological skills considering the age and years of practice of the sport.