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Football Together: Alberto Cei’s Research on Inclusion Through Sport
What Alberto Cei and colleagues reported from the 2017 Soccer Together programme, including mixed motor and football outcomes.
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Alberto Cei
Alberto Cei is a psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in sport and performance. An Olympic consultant, university professor , author of 15 books, he has supported athletes winning 13 Olympic medals and works with elite performers worldwide.
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Training Attention in Elite Football: Alberto Cei’s Early Applied Model
Revisiting Alberto Cei’s 1994 approach to attention assessment and match analysis in elite football.
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What a Two-Week Sport Camp Revealed About Autism and Participation
A two-week multidisciplinary sports camp studied by Cei and colleagues through parents’ reports of children's experiences.
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How the International Journal of Sport Psychology Became an International Forum
How Cei, Lucidi and Serpa traced the early development of the International Journal of Sport Psychology.
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Beyond Football Skills: Alberto Cei and Daniela Sepio’s Three-Child Autism Case Study
How a small football case study by Alberto Cei and Daniela Sepio investigated motor and interpersonal development among three autistic children.
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José María Cagigal and the International Foundations of Sport Psychology
Cei and Serpa explore José María Cagigal’s contribution to the international institutions of sport psychology.
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What Alberto Cei and Mirko Farina Reveal About Concentration and Self-Talk in Football
A research feature on concentration and self-talk in football through the work of Mirko Farina and Alberto Cei.
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Ferruccio Antonelli's Legacy: Building Modern Sport Psychology
An evidence-conscious editorial overview of research by Alberto Cei, published in 2011.
Sport
When Talent Identification Confuses Maturity with Potential
Early physical advantage can look like lasting football potential. Research suggests selectors should be careful about treating the two as equivalent.
Psychology
Who Are You When the Game Is Over?
What happens when the body begins to say no after decades of being an athlete? Alberto Cei examines the deeper challenge of retirement: discovering who you are when sport can no longer define you.
Human Performance
The Four Seconds That Decide the Next Point
Sport psychology has a name for the chain reaction that a single mistake can trigger: cognitive interference. The term sounds clinical. The experience is not.
Sport
Training in the Heat: From a Problem to a Potential Tool for Improving Performance?
Training in high temperatures creates additional strain. When carefully planned, however, repeated heat exposure may increase haemoglobin mass and become a deliberate training stimulus.