Mexico’s national team will have to go without smoking, drinking alcohol and sex for the duration of their World Cup: “It’s not a party.”
Italy CT Cesare Prandelli has made a point about how he will allow his players’ families to accompany them during the summer tournament in Brazil, but that the use of social media will be up for debate.
Mexico’s national team will have to go without smoking, drinking alcohol and sex for the duration of their World Cup: “It’s not a party.”
Italy CT Cesare Prandelli has made a point about how he will allow his players’ families to accompany them during the summer tournament in Brazil, but that the use of social media will be up for debate.
For Mexico’s Miguel Herrera, however, the opposite is true, with no ban on using the likes of Twitter and Facebook, but one on smoking, drinking and in particular, sex.
“No, no-one,” Herrera has told Reforma this week. “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.
“Let’s play a World Cup, we’re not going to a party.
“All the players we have selected have a pretty good resume, they all have won great things, they have been champions and obviously, they know what they want to achieve.
“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.
“So I don't think that the guys even have this [sex] on their minds. They don't have an idea about it. We talked about it because there was a buzz about it and we got criticised because I commented that in a team you have to worry about what is best for the team.
“In a club, you lose one week and you get a second chance the next week. But on a national team, you lose once and you are out of the World Cup.
“I am not thinking about prohibiting sex. I am thinking about football. I hope the players are thinking the same way. Forty days of sexual abstinence is not going to hurt anyone.”
Mexico are in Group A of this summer’s competition, drawn against Croatia, Cameroon and hosts Brazil.