Soccer-Science and slush beating the heat at Qatar World Cup

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LONDON (Reuters) - Hard-running midfielders could lose up to three litres of sweat during a World Cup match in Qatar, but the fast-moving world of sports science is on hand to help enable players maintain performance when in previous years they may have wilted.

Although the tournament has been moved to November/December next year, temperatures will still average in the high 20s Celsius, and conditions will still be severely testing for many players, particularly those coming straight from cooler regions and with only a one-week acclimatization window.

"In football, what you're doing before and after becomes increasingly important," Jack Wilson, sports and exercise scientist at the Porsche Human Performance centre based at the Silverstone racetrack in the U.K., told Reuters. "I would say that in the last 10 years I've seen more teams starting to look at individualising what they do," Blow told Reuters.

"So in addition to hydration and acclimatisation, I know the teams and players are looking into things like cooling jackets and pre-match ice drinks to help manage temperature. Some teams even have their own Slush Puppie machines. "Irrespective of the temperature and wind outside, even if there's a dust storm, inside will be maintained at 22-23 degrees C and with the best air quality in whole of Doha," Saud Abdulghani, a professor of mechanical engineering at Qatar University, told Reuters this week.

 

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