"These cases are rapidly increasing. Getting insane now."
Agree 100%. The worst thing is, certainly in English football, the calendar is packed, these guys have almost no recovery time over the Christmas period. Things could be about to get extremely ugly.
The schedules they have are nuts. Especially in WC qual years. League, Champions, WC, daily practice. I wonder what the real figure is since 90% of their exertion happens in training.
"I wonder what the real figure is since 90% of their exertion happens in training."
Training is nothing compared to playing a competitive game. That's why there is a concept of "match fitness". For example in Football Manager, which is pretty realistic and they work with a lot of top coaches, if you train a player like mad but don't give him competitive games, his match fitness will drop and keep dropping.
I agree that there might be a lot of hidden things going on (quite honestly the BLM race baiting BS, the woke crap and the whole Covid narrative means I no longer care about football: despite my beloved Leeds United getting promoted, I didn't watch more than five minutes of Match of the Day last season - what I did see of it made me switch off immediately).
Another one:
https://football-italia.net/napoli-midfielder-zielinski-goes-off-with-respiratory-problems/
He was clutching his chest as well, which wasn't mentioned here.
And another: Footballer Martin Terrier subbed off after 30 minutes due to chest pain.
This doctor on twitter is doing good work here:
https://twitter.com/DrJamesOlsson
Damn. I like Zielinski and Napoli. These cases are rapidly increasing. Getting insane now.
"These cases are rapidly increasing. Getting insane now."
Agree 100%. The worst thing is, certainly in English football, the calendar is packed, these guys have almost no recovery time over the Christmas period. Things could be about to get extremely ugly.
The schedules they have are nuts. Especially in WC qual years. League, Champions, WC, daily practice. I wonder what the real figure is since 90% of their exertion happens in training.
I've been thinking about this today:
"I wonder what the real figure is since 90% of their exertion happens in training."
Training is nothing compared to playing a competitive game. That's why there is a concept of "match fitness". For example in Football Manager, which is pretty realistic and they work with a lot of top coaches, if you train a player like mad but don't give him competitive games, his match fitness will drop and keep dropping.
I agree that there might be a lot of hidden things going on (quite honestly the BLM race baiting BS, the woke crap and the whole Covid narrative means I no longer care about football: despite my beloved Leeds United getting promoted, I didn't watch more than five minutes of Match of the Day last season - what I did see of it made me switch off immediately).