Liam Tharme

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1,662 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 6d ago

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The Athletic FC Podcast · How can England conquer the Azteca? · 4 Jul 2026 podcast

And this game is sandwiched pretty bang in the middle.

And in order to train and prepare for the first few games, which they were worried about heat.

So they had a kind of a focus in their pre-tournament stuff, their base camp around, OK, can we prepare for heat?

And after this game, you won't be playing altitude anymore because the games are going to the US.

It's really awkward to then prepare for because you could theoretically design your whole kind of training camp around that.

But that's then completely at odds with the recovery that you want in a tournament cycle where they've played just kind of three or four days ago.

They want them, in fact, to give the players extra oxygen, not take it away from them because they want them to recover.

We've seen Declan Rice and others kind of look out on their feet, be cramping.

I think you run the risk of if you kind of go, okay, we'll go all in on the altitude prep.

you might not get to this route.

If you lose a game before that, you're not getting knocked out, then you've done all that work to prepare for a game you don't end up playing.

And it is really, really physiologically demanding for Jack, for elite players as well.

There's no kind of hiding from that, but you just can't control for it in a different way.

In other sports, you know, marathon training, athletics or cycling,

you know, athletes will go to these altitude camps for a block of time and they will not be kind of competing regularly during or maybe not competing at all.

You go there, you train, come back to sea level and you compete them with the adaptation that you've got from that.

So I think Finland, they wanted to go as close to it as possible just to get in, get out.

I think as much psychologically as kind of before their body starts to adapt to the altitude and they start to feel pretty grim.

It's a really hard thing to compete against.

Yeah, I think toying with the idea of kind of saying maybe do they go to a back three?

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