By Tony Ubani

The fear factor of playing in a World Cup match can present several mental game challenges for some of Super Eagles players who play in their first World Cup here in Brazil.
Team Psychologist, Robinson Okosun is aware of the huge challenges that face players in the World Cup but was quick to assure that he has knocked it into them to overcome such challenges.

Okosun said that he had been working on the anxiety of players after identifying psychological problems and therefore reduce their anxiety level. He said that pressure to perform and their mental preparation has been worked on as they relax and look at the World cup as nothing different from the matches they have played in their different clubs.
‘’We’ve been talking and they have come to realize that the World Cup match is not different from the other matches they have played. It is only when you concentrate on names of bigger players that you get nervy and make mistakes.

Now, they are aware that these players are not different from the ones they play with at club levels. They have also dropped whatever problems they have to focus on concentrate on the assignment at hand. They are good and ready to go”, Dr Okosun said after the team rounded off one of their trainings in Sao Paulo.