According to reports, Mexican coach Miguel Herrera is banning his players from eating red meat, drinking alcohol and having sex during the World Cup.
As a matter of fact, the beef ban has already gone into effect in the hope of preventing players from testing positive for the performance-enhancing drug clenbuterol, a chemical that has previously contaminated meat produced in Mexico. “Our training center has determined, based on what happened in the past, that red meat shouldn’t be eaten,” Herrera said.
It’s unclear if the team rules about sex and alcohol have already been instituted, but Herrera does sound serious about enforcing his “We’re not going to a party” mindset.
“If a player can’t go one month or 20 days without having sexual relations, then they are not prepared to be a professional player,” he said. “So then we will not be looking for sex or having sex at the World Cup just to have it, we are going to go after what we came for, a competition that gives us the opportunity to rise above and do something really great.”
Herrera has stressed that he wants his players’ total concentration to be on the tournament, but he’s willing to allow them to use Twitter and Facebook because for some reason that will make up for that whole no meat, booze or sex thing. “They can bring their phones to communicate with their families, chat and all that, obviously,” he said. “For those who like social media, I have no problem. This is not boot camp, it’s the World Cup.”
Mexico is in Group A and the club will begin play against Cameroon on June 13, followed by matches against Brazil and Croatia.
Besides having home field advantage when the teams face off, Brazil will also likely have a roster of much happier players because their coach, Luis Felipe Scolari, has previously said that he will allow national team players to have sex the night before games – as long as they don’t do anything “acrobatic.”
“If it’s normal sex, okay. If this is normal, it is normal, it is not sending oneself in the air too high,” Scolari said when asked about the subject. “Normally, normal sexual intercourses are made in a balanced way, but there are certain forms, certain ways and others who do acrobatics. And that, no.”
Will scoring in the bedroom help Brazil’s squad rack up goals against the sex-free Mexican team on the field? Tune in to the World Cup on June 17 and find out.
Evan Bleier is a freelance writer based out of wherever he can plug in his laptop. You can send him questions, comments and Buffalo wing suggestions @itishowitis or “like” CraveOnline Sports on Facebook.
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