New Manchester United coach appoints sports psychologist
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Manchester United's new coach, Ralf Rangnick, emphasizes the importance of sports psychology and announces appointing Sascha Lense as the team's sports psychologist.
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Rangnick, who has been named interim manager until the end of the season, kicked off his time with United with a 1-0 win.
Ralf Rangnick announced Tuesday that Manchester United had appointed a sports psychologist to ensure the players "think in the right way."
The 63-year-old German, who has been named interim manager until the end of the season, kicked off his time with United with a 1-0 win against Crystal Palace on Sunday.
Rangnick has confirmed that Chris Armas, the former New York Red Bulls and Toronto FC manager, will be joining United as an assistant coach, with Sascha Lense coming in as sports psychologist.
"In Germany in the last couple of years, most clubs have employed a sports psychologist or mental coach, whatever you would like to call them," Rangnick said.
"For me, it's only a question of logic. I mean, if you have special coaches for goalkeeping, physical education, even for strikers, fitness, whatever, you also should have an expert for the brain."
Rangnick, who replaced the sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, spoke at his unveiling about the need to "train the brain" and believes the new coaching arrivals will aid the transition to his way of working.
"The players have to buy in. I can tell them whatever I want, I need to convince them, I have to get into their hearts, into their brains, into their blood," he passionately expressed.
