Active resilience in modern football

Football is a sport of constant error. Every match is full of decisions made in fractions of a second, imperfect executions, and unpredictable situations. Expecting error-free performance is unrealistic and counterproductive, especially in developmental contexts. For this reason, the concept of active resilience has become particularly relevant in modern football: the player’s ability to face mistakes, learn from them, and use them as a driver for improvement.

Unlike resilience understood only as emotional resistance...