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- Laser - 2022-05-09
When one's season is lost before it has hardly begun, there is of course a moment or two where the discouragement takes over your entire persona. You feel an amount of guilt that you have not performed to the best of your ability and the team is suffering because of it. You push yourself to the largest extent possible both on the field and off the field, no matter the cost. The mental game becomes overthought time and time again, to the point that you think through every pass, every defensive play you make thirty times in the space of a few seconds and end up panicking and making the wrong decisions. There's also those moments that a play happens so fast that you can't think at all about it, and you have to act purely off of instinct, and in those moments Pascal always does his best. But instinct isn't something you can train, instinct is something that is totally up to you and how you react to situations. Pascal's fully aware that the season is long over for Cairo City, as the team sits with only 2 wins with 4 matches left to be played and can't possibly finish near the top of the table. However, whether Pascal is sent to an expansion team as discussed last week or he stays put with Cairo, he will be focusing on his mental game more than anything in the long offseason, knowing that if he wants his on-field performance to be better, he has to make sure that his off-field preparation and mindset are the best that they possibly can be, regardless of the team's place in the table and regardless of his personal performance in a given day. He needs to be more resilient and be able to shake off a bad performance as soon as possible, and he believes that he can accomplish this over the offseason. Maybe not fully, but to a large extent. And that will help all of his mechanics and instincts in the process, helping Pascal continually become one of the best.