jhungary
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Very true. It's easy to forget, that despite being members of their country's world cup team, on arguably the largest stage in the world (imagine how many eyes are watching you kick that ball), they're still just regular guys like you and me.
The pressure is much more on the kicker than on the gaolie. But you're right, Modric was extremely lucky and the Croatian goalie toughed it out like a super man after pulling that hamstring!
Most professional athletes trained to focus on their game and how to dealt with pressure, some people perform better under pressure, some simply break up under pressure.
There was a program called "Brain Games" from NetGeo TV and one of the episode cover how human deal with positive and negative energy reinforcement (such as cheering and booing in games) and they founded that Professional Athletes is exempted from the result.