Mental performance for high school soccer

Coach the mental game like you coach everything else.

Assign a 9-week curriculum. Your players train five minutes a day on their phones. You see who's showing up.

Private journals Encrypted at rest Coach-led No ads, ever
Mindset FC athlete home — day streak, season points, and the day's training, reflection, and focus

The mental game decides matches. Most teams have no way to coach it.

Composure under pressure. Confidence after a mistake. Nerves before kickoff. The options have been a one-off preseason talk, or a sports psychologist almost no program can afford.

The player experience

Three things. Every day.

Five minutes between practice and bed. Each day gives every athlete a short clip, a private reflection, and a focus tool — short enough to do on the bus, structured enough to feel like a real program.

  • A daily training clip (2–6 min) on the day's theme
  • A private journal no coach, parent, or teammate can read
  • Box breathing and single-point focus to lock in before kickoff
  • A real season with a beginning, middle, and end — not an endless feed
5 mina day for athletes
9 weeksthree 3-week blocks
A private reflection prompt — “What is one thing you want to get better at this week?” — with a journaling field
The coaches portal

Five minutes a week, on your side of it.

A complete, soccer-specific curriculum is ready the moment you log in. Assign it, add your roster, and the program runs itself — while you stay in control.

  • Full 9-week curriculum out of the box — customize any theme or prompt
  • See who's engaged and who's at risk, based on activity — never their journal
  • Send a pre-game voice note to every phone, with read receipts
Unlimitedathletes per team
The Mindset FC coach dashboard: 21 athletes, 13 active streaks, 3 at-risk, 76% completion, with a nine-week engagement heatmap and an at-risk athlete list
The team ritual

Mental training the whole team does together.

Streaks, points, a team leaderboard, and coach-set goals turn solitary mental reps into a shared ritual. Low-pressure by design: no anxiety traps, no late-night notifications, and missed days can be made up.

Trust & privacy

Built for minors. Trust is the whole point.

For a program used by teenagers, privacy isn't fine print — it's the value proposition for athletic directors and parents.

Private journalsCoaches see whether an athlete engaged — never a word of what they wrote.
Encrypted journalsReflections are encrypted at rest — unreadable in our database, not just hidden from coaches.
Built for 13 and upEvery athlete confirms they're 13 or older at sign-up — the program is designed for high-school players.
No ads, no data salesNo third-party ads, no behavioral profiles, no selling data. We collect only what the program needs.

Who's behind it

Real curriculum, real experts — not repackaged meditation content.

Evren Gunduz, founder and primary content creator

Evren Gunduz

Founder & primary content creator

A Harvard Ed.M. educator with ten years in the classroom, an award-winning soccer coach (Tri-Valley League Coach of the Year), and an ultramarathoner. Evren owns the editorial voice of the curriculum and built Mindset FC to give coaches the structured mental-performance tool he wished he'd had on the sideline.

Dr. Pete Kadushin · Consulting advisorLicensed sport psychologistsFormer college & pro players

Bring Mindset FC to your team.

Tell us a little about your program and we'll set up a quick demo and a quote. No commitment — just a look at how it runs.

For athletes

Get the free athlete app

A daily clip, private journaling, and focus tools — free, on your own. If your team is enrolled, sign up and enter your team code to join them. Not enrolled yet? Ask your coach to book a demo.

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