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How do England players acclimatize to Florida's heat?
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Welcome to the Five Live Football Daily and our first Football Daily that is from the United States ahead of the World Cup. The first of many, I should say, because the countdown is well and truly on. Five Live is the station to listen to from Rick Edwards in LA at breakfast throughout the day and with 92 commentaries in total, we'll be bringing you across the network. So, a warm welcome from Florida, where in addition, incidentally, we have the two England warm-up games, live from Tampa and Orlando against New Zealand and Costa Rica, respectively, that are live on Five Live. Hello, I'm Ian Dennis, and I'm joined here in Florida by the former England international, Stephen Warnock, and the BBC's senior football correspondent, Sammy Mockbell.
And when I say a warm welcome, my word, the heat...
ridiculous it is it's very hot i mean i've spent a lot of time in florida as a kid growing up and and being fortunate to come on holiday here my best friend lives in tampa which is a couple of hours away from me i've spent a lot of time there as well and you don't realize it until you step into it and you're out in the out in the sun and it's on top of you when you're in the shade it's it's very masked it really is but when you're in it my word it's hot and i've also done a training camp out here with uh with blackburn which is around about March time, February, March time. And that got to a point where Mark Hughes, who was manager at the time, said, we're only going to be able to train for 45 minutes or so because of the heat and the intensity of it.
And we saw the England players before, just the sweat dripping off them.
And Sammy, they probably did probably no more than an hour today, did they?
You can't. It literally hits you like a ton of bricks.
What does Jordan Henderson say about his England career?
As soon as you walk out from your hotel, middle of the morning, so you're not even at the height of the day, it is sweltering. And we were lucky enough to speak to some of the players earlier in the mix zone. All of them literally dripping in sweat. And when you get up close and personal to them, It does hammer home the conditions and them having to run around high intensity for 90 minutes. I know that Thomas Tuchel asked or advised his players to try and holiday here before reporting up. And you can see why, right? Because you've got the time zone issues. But yeah, the conditions are sweltering and it's... to run around and to be playing a game in that level of heat.
How did Ollie Watkins use motivation to improve his form?
I think England's games kick off at 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock, height of the day. I don't envy them at all.
I think it's interesting, I was speaking to a friend of mine who's actually out here, he's a recovery expert, Dr Robin Thorpe, and I was chatting to him and he was saying, what you actually want to do is you want to push the body as much as you can, but you push it to its limit. every day just to gradually improve it get it better and better and he said then the process of playing in this heat becomes so much easier and that's how you acclimatise to it but it's such a fine balance because everyone's going to be different so how England are going to manage it in terms of recovery in terms of nutrition I don't know what you're like Dano because this is a very apt question to you but when I'm in the heat I don't eat much so I'm not sure what you're like I don't eat much either
You just drink more. But it is, it's very difficult and trying to get that nutrition down you when you're so hot and your body's so, it's cooking, it's overheating. And I was speaking to him and I was saying, well, what measures are you going to try and take into place?
What qualities does Kobbie Mainoo bring to the England squad?
And he said, they've got these handheld devices that during the water breaks, we're going to see them implemented both in training but also in the games. They hold them. they hold them for 90 seconds and the idea is it's like it cools you down and it gives you that feeling that your body's relaxing and it allows you to go again he was saying that the studies that have been done it allows your body to to sprint at high intensity again 60 higher than you would if you didn't use these so the actual thought process that's gone in behind the scenes is they don't just turn up england and go oh we'll see how we get on and we'll just put wet towels on the players there's a lot of thought and a lot of
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How do England players acclimatize to Florida's heat?
0:00–2:25
2
What does Jordan Henderson say about his England career?
2:25–3:14
3
How did Ollie Watkins use motivation to improve his form?
3:14–4:14
4
What qualities does Kobbie Mainoo bring to the England squad?
4:14–5:10
5
How does the heat impact the players' training and performance?
5:10–6:20
6
What psychological strategies do players use to cope with pressure?
6:20–7:14
7
How important is team morale for success in the World Cup?
7:14–8:08
8
What insights did the players share about their experiences in camp?
8:08–32:41
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