Football: driven by caffeine; Meet the new Football Finance expert in the Athletics

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Hello! If you already meet your third cup of coffee, you don't feel bad. You could turn into a professional footballer.

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Drink, shot or chewing gum? How footballers consume caffeine

Which footballer of considerable reputation in England has such a matchday diet plan: a cheese and ham omelette before led with three cans Red Bull and a double espresso in combination?

The answer is Jamie Vardy and although it may not have been read as the breakfast of the Champions, it didn't stop him from scoring goals like the best or winning a Premier League title with Leicester City. Vardy's intake is caffeine and that makes it completely conformant.

As a stimulant, Kaffein has accepted upses for professional athletes. Studies show that it can reduce pain and fatigue that is caused by intensive movement and increases the spiritual focus. But when I was immersed in football circles in Sarah Shephard's studies, I did not expect so many clubs to actively make it easier to use IT: 97 percent in England that will give their troops alone.

You can see it is legal because excessive caffeine das is banned from the global anti-doping agency between 1987 and 2004. In addition, the sport generally developed from time when tea, coffee and caffeine energy drink were king. Caffeous inputs have taken over. And the chewing gum that you can see in footballers? It is likely that caffeine rubber is designed for the same purpose, a flourishing company in itself.

One of the experts who interviewed Sarah spoke about a “coffee culture” in football. Caffeine is a supplement that many in the game do not like without going. But it asks for all products like this: How healthy is it for you?

The advantages and disadvantages

According to performance Nutritionist Dr. Rob Naughton can improve caffeine sprints, basic skills and fine motor skills as well as endurance and endurance. On the other hand, it can have a negative impact on the serenity and sleep, and the control of sleep patterns becomes more important because the FIFA calendar is becoming more and more packaged.

Perhaps you also remember the warning story of the USMNT -Antonee Robinson, who saw a proposed transition to the Italian series A Milan on the basis of a heart problem that was later held responsible for caffeine.

However, evangelists of the advantages are plentiful. The manufacturer of the Onegum Energy brand began to provide the French national team after a member of their team had told others in their surroundings that they had given them the advantage when they had lost the 2016 European Championship final. Make it what you want, but the French lifted the World Cup two years later.

Gum has a performance advantage when the human body absorbs the caffeine it released faster than coffee or tea. In contrast to Snus nicotine bags, for example, it is used within sight with a clear blessing of the clubs, apparently without stigma.

A fitness trainer from the Premier League told Sarah, like 50 percent of those with whom he works, caffeine encompasses their routines and how nutritional supplements are specially defined before a game – part of the basic food diet of football and a breakfast champion on which they swear.

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News Summary

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Introduction to the accountant

Say hello to The athletes The new football Finance expert, Chris Weatherspoon – or the accountant as he will be known. In my opinion, there are not enough nicknames in the wrestling style in sports journalism.

His first article was published today and jumped ready to play by bringing the microscope into Manchester United's books. It is CSI forensic and designs the thick strands of accounting brilliantly. I chose two of his graphics to show them here.

Image One calculates the mere amount of money that the Glazer family deserves in their almost 20-year majority stake: 1.35 billion GBP (USD 1.75 billion), in order to be precise, mainly through equity sales, but partly by dividend payments. It is enough to say that not everyone loses old Trafford and that the Glaz also remain in the possession of a stack shares and voting rights.

At the same time, you can see below how the winnings evaporated from the end of the 2018-19 season, without a doubt to explain why the Glazers were open to Ineo's minority investment and they like to have fire brigade. Steeper losses cannot occur forever.

As Chris writes: Fill your boots here.

There is a curb for your enthusiasm, which is specially designed for this: United increases prices for season tickets for 2025-26. Who would have guessed it? At least you have withdrawn an original thoughts to hike it by 20 percent.

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Teenager kicks in the NWSL

The story was written in the NWSL at the weekend when Mak Whitham from Gotham FC … was waiting for that … the youngest player in the history of the league – only 14 years old. That's correct. We talk about a child.

She broke the record as a replacement in a 1-1 draw with Seattle Reign and Melanie Anzideis Profile of her meat on the bones of Whitham's quick climb and explained how the devil made her so young. Since she scored her first professional goal after reaching her teenagers, an NWSL sheet was in the post office.

I tried to remember what I did at 14. Not that, it's fair to say.

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To the sporty

• Hidetoshi Nakata was one of the faces of football in the late 1990s in Italy, a Japanese icon that got his European break in Perugia. If you are at my age, you will recognize him immediately. But he announced at the age of 29 and in this interview with Tom Burrows he explains that he was never really a fan of sport.
• The final of the Concacaf Nations League is almost and the USMNT is strongly placed to win it. We have put together a list of the TOP 20 Concacaf talent. Keep the number three in mind: Canada's Jonathan David. This summer he is for a big path from Lille.
• After the Carabao Cup final, our Newcastle United Boys explained how and why the Systemie Nation made it on the way. Listen to Apple and Spotify. 🎙
• 🖱 Most clicked their sterile cup run in yesterday's TAFC: Newcastle. If you look at the graphic below, you will find other English teams with large, large stripes to break …

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A match catch 📺

(Selected games, Times Et/GMT)

The quarter -finals of women Champions League in the first leg: Real Madrid against Arsenal, 1.45 p.m./5.45pm; Bayern Munich against Lyon, 4 p.m. 8 p.m. – Both DAZN/TNT Sports.

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And finally …

Spanish football could deal with a metric for expected symptoms per season (we will call it XC). Every day someone beats something somewhere.

But I am on this special battlefield with Barcelona: La Liga Schuht a game against Osasuna (postponed from March 8 after the sudden death of Barca's first team doctor) in his diary for March 27, before the current international break ends technically.

It might have been washed if Ronald Araujo was not to play for Uruguay in Bolivia on March 25 in Bolivia. If Raphinha should not play for Brazil on March 26 in Buenos Aires, or if the tip of the La Liga was not closer than a Beancounter by Sir Jim Ratclif. You will be shocked to find out that Barca has taken against the decision.

(Topfoto: Juan Mabromata/AFP via Getty Images)