SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST
Bafana score just what head doctor ordered
A sports psychologist helped Bafana players regain their composure and believe they had the talent to beat Burkina Faso 3-1 at on Saturday. Bafana stand-in captain Itumeleng Khune and coach Stuart Baxter revealed their extra weapon was psychologist Martin Scheepers. Many fans gave Saturday’s match a miss after SA’s shocking back-to-back defeats to Cape Verde in two previous World Cup qualifiers in September. "It was very interesting because the first thing we did with Martin Scheepers was to have a meeting where we ran things by him on what we wanted to address‚" said Baxter. "He gave us some points and said of the five we were already doing four. The one big point that he said was missing was that he wanted the players’ minds to be on the ‘here and now’. "We talked about the Cape Verde issue and the fact that we seemed to have our focus on Russia and that we were not in the ‘here and now’ in that game. "He also said that it’s going to take us about a year to get a winning culture i...
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