Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
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Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
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Re: Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
#2Paraphrasing: "high meat consumption + low income = better soccer players".
This will be biased in favour of Brazil, but it seems like a plausible idea that more meat can be correlated to better athletic development
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#3Where does cocaine enter the picture? He was using it from the very beginning of his playing career. Got suspended 3 times by anti-doping agencies (most famously in 1994 at the World Cup)
At 27 years old in 1988, and at the very height of his abilities and fame, the Napoli playmaker would lower himself to the following “physical programme”.
Sunday: Serie A match.
Sunday night to Wednesday morning: continuous cocaine binge.
Wednesday morning to Saturday evening: “cleanse”, and sweat it all out.
Sunday: Serie A match.
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Re: Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
#5Where does cocaine enter the picture? He was using it from the very beginning of his playing career. Got suspended 3 times by anti-doping agencies (most famously in 1994 at the World Cup) At 27 years old in 1988, and at the very height of his abilities and fame, the Napoli playmaker would lower himself to the following “physical programme”. Sunday: Serie A match. Sunday night to Wednesday morning: continuous cocaine…
Did that "programme" improve or worsen his performance, though? Unless he was able to train harder perhaps.
Re: Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
#6Where does cocaine enter the picture? He was using it from the very beginning of his playing career. Got suspended 3 times by anti-doping agencies (most famously in 1994 at the World Cup) At 27 years old in 1988, and at the very height of his abilities and fame, the Napoli playmaker would lower himself to the following “physical programme”. Sunday: Serie A match. Sunday night to Wednesday morning: continuous cocaine…
Did that "programme" improve or worsen his performance, though? Unless he was able to train harder perhaps.
Kusturica made a documentary about him where he said (or implied) he would have been a better player if he wasn't taking cocaine https://www.besoccer.com/new/do-you-know-what-player-i-would...
Re: Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
#7I am surprised they emphasize "development of the cognitive functions required to excel in soccer" but not physical development from meat (and hence higher protein) consumption
Re: Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
#8Where does cocaine enter the picture? He was using it from the very beginning of his playing career. Got suspended 3 times by anti-doping agencies (most famously in 1994 at the World Cup) At 27 years old in 1988, and at the very height of his abilities and fame, the Napoli playmaker would lower himself to the following “physical programme”. Sunday: Serie A match. Sunday night to Wednesday morning: continuous cocaine…
sounds like all that stuff would have made him a worse player.
Re: Making a Maradona: Meat Consumption and Soccer Prowess
#9Paraphrasing: "high meat consumption + low income = better soccer players". This will be biased in favour of Brazil, but it seems like a plausible idea that more meat can be correlated to better athletic development
Brazil are good at soccer simply because they are the biggest country where soccer is the main sport so it will be hard to control for that trying to find other reasons. It will be more interesting to look at small countries with relative success like Uruguay or Holland.
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#10Paraphrasing: "high meat consumption + low income = better soccer players". This will be biased in favour of Brazil, but it seems like a plausible idea that more meat can be correlated to better athletic development
Or simply that a diet not meeting the nutritional needs can be correlated to worse athletic performance. And since meat is dense in nutrition, and since places with less meat available sometimes is low income, I think it’s plausible.