September 15, 2022 – 4:38 pm
Gilberto Silva, Susana Torres and Katie Bernardo will discuss the topic of mental health in high competition athletes
The Thinking Football Summit 2022 announced this Thursday the first panel of the event, organized by Liga Portugal, which will focus on the mental health of top-level athletes. Gilberto Silva, former world football champion, Susana Torres, High Performance coach, and Kaite Bernardo, CEO and Founder of Global Football Management, are part of the panel, where the secrets to psychologically dealing with the pressure that exists in sport will be analyzed. of high competition. The mental health of athletes – who have to deal with various challenges in order to achieve the goals they set for themselves – is a topic that, for decades, was forgotten and is now taken with another seriousness by sports entities.
The Liga Portugal also gives an account of a worrying fact. According to a study carried out by the University of Toronto, about 41% of Canadian National Team athletes, who were training for the Tokyo 2022 Olympic Games, met the criteria for the diagnosis of depression.
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