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Ali Gold asked Postecoglou: Is there a chance that the amount of waiting around players are doing now with VAR can lead to more muscle injuries? (www.football.london)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hallenbeck@lemmy.world to c/football@lemmy.world

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Postecoglou: "Absolutely. I am not going to draw a direct correlation to Micky's injury but I was half-tempted to throw some balls out there for them to kick around. It's the reason we have warm-ups but if you're going into a game, the fact there was only 47 minutes of game time the other night in whatever it was, 110, that is not ideal for the type of athletes we have out there"

That's the disgrace right there. All this waiting around is likely harming the players.

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[–] yamsham@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nah I’m sorry I think this is bullshit. Obviously warming up with a ball can be important for performance reasons, but in terms of injury prevention they just need to move around a bit and stay warm. No one’s stopping them from doing some quick drills while they wait.

You can dislike the waiting around for other reasons if you want, but you can’t have players standing around doing nothing, and then blaming var when they get cold

[–] hallenbeck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, he did say, "I was half-tempted to throw some balls out there for them to kick around". It's right there in the quote I posted.

They'll need to come up with some strategies for keeping warm while waiting an indeterminate amount of time while waiting for VAR.

So not bullshit at all then.

[–] hallenbeck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They’ll need to come up with some strategies for keeping warm while waiting an indeterminate amount of time while waiting for VAR.

In American Football they use stationary bikes to keep warm.

https://bikehike.org/why-do-nfl-players-use-stationary-bike/