I trust the team.’”It’s three minutes of Zen before Portland coach Phil Neville gives his pregame talk. The Timbers are perhaps the only Major League Soccer team that practices meditation as a group before every game. It’s a practice introduced by Henderson, who joined the Timbers this season as the club’s mental performance coach. She joked that being a Paralympian didn’t exactly pay the bills, so she went back to school and got a master’s degree in sport and performance psychology. Instead, it’s often the things that players are dealing with off the field that can impact what they do on it.