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#214 Dr Martin Erikstad - As Many as Possible for as Long as Possible: Fostering Engagement and Participation in Sport

The Sport Psych Show

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The Stress of Competitive Playing in Football

I always played football just for fun and became like pretty good so you know at least enough to be selected for one of the better teams. I don't think I would have ended up professionally anyway but yeah so when I suddenly saw it was not longer the best player on the team I started being more nervous at practice. Instead of just enjoying football I started being like more afraid of doing mistakes so it actually turned out that I got injured. The day I got injured and told was told that you cannot play for several months now I was pretty relieved actually so and luckily that was my way into starting sports instead.

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