Inner Game
Mindset Training For Soccer Players (Age 12-18+)
Increased Self-Awareness
Great players understand themselves.
Inner Game training helps athletes recognize their emotional and mental state in real time. Players learn how thoughts influence emotions, how emotions affect decisions, and how awareness creates control. This foundation allows athletes to respond intentionally rather than react impulsively during competition.
Improved Attitude & Performance
The Inner Game is often decided in moments of stress.
Players are taught practical tools to regulate breathing, release tension, and reset after mistakes. By learning emotional regulation and focus under pressure, athletes remain composed, decisive, and confident even when the game becomes chaotic or the stakes are high.
These skills are developed through a soccer lens and applied directly to performance.
Unmatched Self-Confidence
Confidence is not built on results. It is anchored in identity.
Inner Game coaching helps players understand who they are as learners, competitors, and individuals. When confidence is rooted in self awareness and preparation, it does not disappear after a mistake or a tough moment. It becomes steady, resilient, and transferable.
Players carry this confidence into the classroom, the home, and everyday life.
Train the Mind.
Transform the Player.
Master the Inner Game.
Inner Game Foundation (8 Weeks)
This course trains the mind behind performance. Athletes learn how thoughts shape emotions and actions, how to regulate their body under pressure, recover from mistakes, build real confidence, and develop self-belief, focus, and discipline. Through age-appropriate psychology, reflection, and practical tools, players gain skills they can use on the field, in school, at home, and for life.
Inner Game Growth (8 Weeks)
Designed for athletes ready to go deeper. This course explores identity, confidence beyond comparison, leadership, and emotional ownership. Players learn how to stay grounded under pressure, lead themselves and others, and separate self-worth from results. Athletes develop stronger self-awareness, resilience, and maturity they can carry into sport, school, relationships, and life.
Coach Daniel Carroll (Founder)
& Arielle Hartz (LGPC)
“Through the lens of soccer, we teach players to think critically, regulate emotions, and take ownership of their development—building confident young people with clarity, resilience, and purpose.”
Insights Beyond the Field
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