However, when the pressure is on, your heart's beating at 180, lungs are bursting for air and your legs feel like jelly, your brain can play tricks with your good intentions. Where before the game you could find no reason to rest, your fatigued and aching body allows your brain to come up with plenty of reasons to slow down, to lose focus and to justify the previously unthinkable. They have both been in winning and losing dressing-rooms. They know what is at stake. Their knowledge of the game is reflected in the players they choose to represent them.
Coaches know they have to mould the brilliant individuals into a team.
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