ABSTRACT
The interest in psychology is high among people in professional football. In sport psychology, which naturally is about goal-oriented movement behaviour, this is not only odd, it is highly unfortunate. This paradox was clearly pointed out by Anderson et al. in sport psychology, and similarly, by Baumeister et al. in social psychology. Sport psychology work in professional football is rarely only with players. People who make senior decisions in football clubs, such as managers/head coaches, sport directors, and chief executive officers are all required to perform under immense levels of pressure, and under tremendously fluid, complex, and sometimes even chaotic conditions. Professional football is inherently global, with expatriate players being the norm, rather than the exception. Psychology practitioners in football can learn loads from practitioners in the contexts, as they can from those in other sports.
