[auspex]

Sports teams don’t really work that way.

They provide the facilities and a prescriptive plan to get the team where they need to be game ready. Drills, strategy and ensuring everyone is operating as a team on the field.

Tuning their body is the responsibility of the player. The teams aren’t sending them a list of what to eat, how to train or what exercises to do. That’s on the athlete.

Of course they do have specialists to help if the players needs but it’s not “total control for performance”

[rchaud]

> Tuning their body is the responsibility of the player. The teams aren’t sending them a list of what to eat, how to train or what exercises to do. That’s on the athlete.

This is definitely not the case in European football. A single player can cost a team £100m in transfer fees, wages and agent commissions. It is in the club's interest to make sure that player is fit enough to play as many games in the season as possible. Players have curfews and will be fined by their club if they're spotted drinking alcohol or eating pizza after hours. There are vacation days and 'cheat days', but otherwise diets and lifestyle are tightly restricted.

It wasn't like that 25 years ago, when club football was simply a multi-million dollar sport instead of a global, multi-billion-dollar empire. Alcoholism was rife in the English league, as were poor diets due to the absence of coaches and managers who understood the importance of nutritional science.