Elite Mental Performance in Football
Solving the £5 Billion Performance Problem
Clarity
Understanding
Performance​​
The TrueMind Edge Advantage
Clubs that understand the mind win competitions. Edge helps create sporting environments where mental performance is trainable and measurable, players feel understood rather than judged, and performance becomes more consistent, sustainable, and human.
This approach empowers elite football clubs - quietly, intelligently, and at scale - by turning cognitive insights into practical actions, better on and off field decisions, and smart player development and acquisition.
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Edge is the first mental performance baseline built to measure how players actually think, adapt, and recover in real game conditions.
No stigma. No bias. Just signals.
Read the Research and help solve
"The £5 Billion Performance Problem".
Dive into the research behind our performance operating system.
The £5bn Performance Problem is a whitepaper exploring the data models, neural-twin insights and measurable outcomes that make mental performance trainable, scalable and bankable.
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The 3 Dimensions of Elite Mental Performance
1 - Cognitive Control
Focus, Decision Making and Error Recovery.​
2 - Learning + Adaptability
Coachability, Pattern Recognition and Tactical Absorption​​
3 - Emotional Resilience
Setback Response, Confidence Stability and Stress Recovery.​
Why Elite Football Clubs Need Edge
1 - Recruitment + Talent Identification
Understand the mind behind the statistics.
Identify players who think well under pressure, even if they don’t yet stand out physically.
Reduce recruitment mistakes by adding a mental-performance layer.
Compare academy players, triallists, loans, and experienced players. Edge flags risks like slow error recovery, rumination, emotional volatility, or learning friction before problems.
2 - Training Mental Performance
Train the mind as you do the body
Personalise mental training by adapting to each player's learning style and recovery pattern.
Speed learning curves with tailored feedback and target specific mental performance gaps.
Track cognitive development over time, not just the present state, to guide progression and growth.
3 - Emotional Resilience + Confidence
Squad wide consistency wins titles.
Understand what truly drives confidence in each player and recognise personal development levers and buttons.
Prevent a single poor game from triggering a longer downturn in form.
Strengthen recovery cycles between matches and training blocks with structured resets, rest, and reflection to maintain momentum, consistency, and mental steadiness across highs and lows.
4 - Injury Recovery + Return-to-Play
Clearance to play does not equal mental readiness
Edge detects hesitation, fear, or overcompensation in the return after injury phase.
It supports confident reintegration into competition and training and reduces re-injury risk by addressing cognitive and emotional readiness.
Edge ensures that players are physically cleared and mentally primed before rejoining a squad.
5 - Coaching Elite Mental Performance
Developing the hidden half of performance
Learn how each player best receives feedback to build rapid buy-in and trust.
Reduce friction with high-potential + misunderstood players and replace unhelpful labels such as 'uncoachable' with specific, actionable insights that guide coaching, communication styles, and development plans.
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Empower your coaching staff with new insights which drive new approaches to their craft.
6 - Welfare and Wellbeing
Empower support teams to become engines of performance.
Detect mental overload early and protect young players in high-pressure environments.
Convert downstream mental health interventions into upstream mental performance conversations.
Empower players to seek help without fear of judgement and stigma.
Give Player Care, Education and Sports Psychology the opportunity to provide expert support AND be key drivers of elite performance.
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