professor Dr , Muwaffaq Asad Al-Hiti

 Mental fitness is important for the player where he makes great efforts and distinctive from the field in order to acquire the ball, and this requires high potential must be enjoyed by the player, as well as knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing player, in order to be able to use his strength, intelligence and physical, skill and planning abilities in making the right decision for the situations he faces during the game, and mental fitness is a situation that reflects the validity and quality of the general mental state of the player with its simple and complex abilities The capabilities of thinking, analysis, the realization of the mind, the ability to interact with the coach, exchange information, conservation abilities, short-term memory status, speed of mind and reaction, summoning the information that has been stored and making judgments on certain situations. (Mental fitness) is essential for players of competitive sports, whether collective or individual, especially football, because the game of football is a competitive game and fun and excitement and excitement through the high skill performance performed by players on the green rectangle during the game and its many skills, the more the performance of motor skills is characterized by mechanism, accuracy, fluidity, motivation and economy of effort appeared aesthetically and increased pleasure and characterized football creativity, and the more the player was exposed to mental and neurological stress happened cut in Skill performance and lack of motor performance to motor beauty and fluidity and increased physical effort so the skill lacked pleasure, excitement, excitement and creativity. Mental fitness is useful for treating the psychological stress to which the player is exposed as a result of narrow horizon and inability to find solutions for some of the standing plans of the opposing team or the inability of the player to implement the tactic required of him because of his inability to analyze the situations of planning or think quickly to find solutions because the implementation of duties in the games requires the acquisition of some mental skills that qualify the player with the mental fitness required in the world of modern and advanced football that needs various trainings and motivation to develop The player's abilities and the development of his creative and innovative skills to achieve the ambitions of his team.  The player whose mental preparation is good is characterized by a high reaction speed and response to the movements taking place inside the stadium, and the speed of meeting has an active role reflected in the performance of the player. The good ability to think, focus and accurate observation with the high possibility of analysis and good behavior towards what happens in the game, is a great strength for the player after he has been able to achieve the training situation, which qualifies him to achieve superiority over the opponent and then beat him. Mental training was of fundamental importance and necessity in preparing players in football, because competition is the test to show all the players' abilities to perform and mental fitness is required in the game of football because of the presence of different play situations and therefore the presence of players working together or the presence of competitors working to get the ball and progress towards the goal of the other team and this requires the use of the player's abilities of strength, intelligence, good behavior and full awareness of the course of play and make the right decision as well as The player's mental fitness is an important link in the game of football, as well as fitness, psychological, skill and planning, as it is very important to influence excellence in the player's thinking during the game when performing planning duties or developing basic skills, honesty and player ability. On analysis of the different planning positions that occur in the matches. Although there are many complex exercises that develop fitness and one vocabulary of mental fitness such as endurance and with the concentration of attention, for example, or the link between the development of a dynamic skill such as correction and the development of thinking, or the link between plan and thinking plans, so the good mental preparation of the player always helps him to speed up and behave plans during the game in different situations that meet the player, and since good behavior on the field requires known mental abilities, mental preparation develops these mental abilities For the player, hence the increased his offensive and defensive planning skills and the more theoretical and practical information on the field about the plans of play and the planned behaviors in the different situations that are likely to meet the player on the field during the game, the greater his ability to move proper plans, and the impact of this is clearly shown in the group games in the unit of the thought of the team to move on the field in a deliberately organized manner. "It is closely linked to the planning preparation.   The mental preparation of footballers plays an important role in achieving a good level of planning performance, so the mental preparation of players must be accompanied by training in fitness and basic skills, as as the level of these aspects progresses, this has been a reason to use mental processes, especially in situations and situations that need to be resolved by an appropriate decision, as mental processes have a significant impact and impact in finding the right solution and making the right decision towards them. The stage of organizing mental preparation comes after training, which is no less important than the other stages, but it specializes that the coach should give an activity that seeks to teach the ability to apply through careful meaningful discussion of the duties of the players with the clarity of the goal of this discussion and direct the thought processes of the players in trying to find solutions for the duties and evaluate the results and provide the experiences of success in order to find the desire of the player to improve to improve better, the player mentally prepared has the speed to meet the fastest Otherwise, the speed of response plays an important role in the performance of the footballer, and is currently one of the most important features of the modern footballer. The match is a continuation of the training process, which is not applied in training does not apply in the game and on the coaches to rise mental abilities, which help the player to improve his mental abilities, which is one of the most important factors affecting the good decision-making plans during the games. A large number of arab teams and teams matches that the coaches do not do the mental requirements of the player because they believe that this preparation is not important, and he must know that the mental preparation that the coach does to make each player an integrated work unit to implement what is required well knows when and how to behave and invest talents and mental readiness, mental preparation and theoretical education is an important part of modern training, and mental preparation is one of the most important duties of the training process that the trainers must put in mind and the most important abilities The mentality required to be shown to the player, and always deserves the coach to give him adequate care, and this mental preparation gives the player the necessary experience that can benefit his team during the critical times of the game, and the mental preparation plays an important role in the ability to think properly and behave well for the players during the game and training, and   the importance of mental preparation increases as the competition between the two teams intensifies, especially at critical moments during the course of the game. The ability to think properly and behave well for players during the game and training and the importance of mental preparation increases as the competition between the two teams intensifies, especially at critical moments during the course of the game, what any coach must develop the mental abilities of the players to help them think properly and behave appropriately during the game as well as the coach must gain his players knowledge and theoretical and applied information such as rules and laws of play and health aspects and human characteristics besides the technical and planning aspects of the ball  Football and the development of the mental abilities of a player makes him a player with principles who knows how to move on the field consciously, and uses the basic skills suitable for different playing positions. Here, the coach has a prominent and important role through his understanding, experience and knowledge of mental training machines, because of his great importance in learning and acquiring motor skills by participating in the development of mental skills.  It is a form of training programmed to achieve the primary goal of automated performance and is done through the development of mental processes, as well as training for mental processes (information system (in the following sequence, where the player receives information (stimuli) from the outer ocean through (vision, hearing, touch, mental sensation), this information goes to the brain to analyze it through a number of mental processes such as (attention, attention concentration, perception, memory).  Or is the mental perception of the performance of a particular skill helps to strengthen the neural passages of signals sent by the nervous system to the muscles in charge of work or performance. Mental training is directed towards performance, especially in competitions in order to provoke and motivate players and increase their motivation and morale, thus preparing for performance N and mentions that the process of arranging and organizing movements during performance depends on the expectation of vocabulary or requirements of movement, which means that mental training is initially linked to the expectation of the requirements of the conditions surrounding the performance. It is important to mention that mental training is used in the basic stages of the performance of motor skills, and is of great importance in increasing the player's predictability for future performance, which means that the perception is not limited to events or movements previously learned, but can expect better and better performance for the player through cognitive means.     The development of physical qualities is in its content a development of the cognitive aspects of the game, where "the mental susceptibility of players is directly proportional to the technical and planning skills of them and therefore the mental ability of players cannot be separated from the basic technical and planning principles of the game of football, as well as whenever fitness in its right position has positively affected the mental ability of the players."       Mental fitness is an important requirement for the footballer to bring him to the level of creativity and innovation in his duties and tasks assigned during matches such as implementing the game plans and the subsequent movements and maneuvers and changing positions and shifting the play from one side to the other and any other means carried out by attack and defense throughout the game time. "Mental fitness exists as long as there are two colleagues working together to link their game together or a competitor struggling to acquire the ball, which calls for the player to use his strengths, intelligence and awareness in making the right decision and in his actions and movements or thinking with the strengths and weaknesses of the opponent in mind, and mental fitness is a situation that reflects the validity and quality of the general state of mind of the player with its simple and complex abilities of thinking, analysis and composition."