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| Football and Ramadan | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 1 2011, 01:48 PM (354 Views) | |
| Merengue | Aug 1 2011, 01:48 PM Post #1 |
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With the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan I thought I would reprint an interesting article from several years ago by our fellow poster heebeejeebees, on his fine blog Just Football: Football and Ramadan: Can The Two Co-Exist? He points out a fascinating study which was conducted on fasting players at various Tunisian youth clubs:
An interesting topic but I wonder if studying youth players, who would I think be less susceptible to the strains of fasting than players over 21, had any effect on their findings? |
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| Sporting | Aug 1 2011, 10:42 PM Post #2 |
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I read somewhere that Kanouté actually did slightly better for Sevilla during Ramadan than at other times, but have no evidence to back up this view at the moment. |
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| Dr. Z | Aug 2 2011, 12:58 PM Post #3 |
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Really? Then Sevilla should have him a] fast more often and/or b] go to the mosque more frequently! If true that sounds more circumstantial than anything else to me. Seems counter intuitive doesn't it that a player can fast during the daylight hours yet still be more productive on the field of play. |
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| Yogi | Aug 3 2011, 01:18 PM Post #4 |
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German footballers may eat during Ramadan: council
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| hobbes | Sep 1 2011, 11:50 PM Post #5 |
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I must have missed this thread a month ago, but I played football (the gridiron kind) and we would start the pre-season in mid-August with two-a-day practices. It's a traditional right of passage to wear a bunch of heavy equipment and practice for 4-5 hours per day in the heat of August. In my case, I did this with a couple of Muslim teammates who were fasting for Ramadan. Not only did they never miss a practice, but their play and fitness didn't seem to be noticeably affected. What's worse they had the nerve to not even complain! Do you know how hard it is to go through two-a-days and not even be able to bitch about the heat or complain about how hard you're working because two of your teammates are doing the same thing as you, but aren't eating and they're not complaining. Some people ![]() cheers, hobbes |
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