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How Pep Guardiola was annoyed by Bayern Munich players eating chocolate tarts and fixed the nutrition
The former Barça boss had a lot of work to do when he arrived in Munich at the start of last season
It is still four days before Borussia Dortmund’s pre-season training starts and Bayern are already contesting their second friendly. This time they are up against TSV Regen.
A table overflowing with buns, pastries and drinks awaits them in the dressing room and a few of the players immediately tuck into the chocolate tarts. This is the second match in a row they have been treated to a similar spread and Guardiola is taken aback.
With an hour and a quarter left before kick-off he takes a minute to ask Kathleen Krüger, the team manager, why both TSV Regen and Weiden in der Oberpfalz felt it was appropriate to provide his players with pastries and she reassures him that it was Bayern themselves who originally established the custom.
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Mona Nemmer has joined Bayern as the team nutritionist and today is her first morning at work. She is also sitting out on the terrace, surrounded by the hotel chefs, with whom she is planning the menu for the next few days. She is 28 and has worked previously in the youth sections of the German national team.
Bayern listened to Guardiola’s request. The players’ post-match meals were already carefully planned by the club. The team bus has its own kitchen, where the players get their post-match ration of freshly cooked pasta, salad and meat or fish, prepared, as is all of Bayern’s catering, by well-known chef Alfons Schuhbeck. These meals are vital for their physiological recuperation. Despite this however, Pep felt that there was room for improvement and now Mona, who will closely monitor the players’ nutritional intake, has joined the staff.
Buenaventura agrees that this is vitally important: ‘Like all big teams, Bayern plays a game every three days, and that affects the way we prepare. Medical studies in Italy have shown that the speed of post-match recovery depends entirely on the players’ diet.
If they eat properly then they should have recovered 80% of the glycogen in their muscles within three days. Only 80%! Just imagine what it would be if they ate unhealthily! And after four consecutive matches in cycles of three days, the risk of injury increases by 60%.’
The former Barça boss had a lot of work to do when he arrived in Munich at the start of last season
It is still four days before Borussia Dortmund’s pre-season training starts and Bayern are already contesting their second friendly. This time they are up against TSV Regen.
A table overflowing with buns, pastries and drinks awaits them in the dressing room and a few of the players immediately tuck into the chocolate tarts. This is the second match in a row they have been treated to a similar spread and Guardiola is taken aback.
With an hour and a quarter left before kick-off he takes a minute to ask Kathleen Krüger, the team manager, why both TSV Regen and Weiden in der Oberpfalz felt it was appropriate to provide his players with pastries and she reassures him that it was Bayern themselves who originally established the custom.
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Mona Nemmer has joined Bayern as the team nutritionist and today is her first morning at work. She is also sitting out on the terrace, surrounded by the hotel chefs, with whom she is planning the menu for the next few days. She is 28 and has worked previously in the youth sections of the German national team.
Bayern listened to Guardiola’s request. The players’ post-match meals were already carefully planned by the club. The team bus has its own kitchen, where the players get their post-match ration of freshly cooked pasta, salad and meat or fish, prepared, as is all of Bayern’s catering, by well-known chef Alfons Schuhbeck. These meals are vital for their physiological recuperation. Despite this however, Pep felt that there was room for improvement and now Mona, who will closely monitor the players’ nutritional intake, has joined the staff.
Buenaventura agrees that this is vitally important: ‘Like all big teams, Bayern plays a game every three days, and that affects the way we prepare. Medical studies in Italy have shown that the speed of post-match recovery depends entirely on the players’ diet.
If they eat properly then they should have recovered 80% of the glycogen in their muscles within three days. Only 80%! Just imagine what it would be if they ate unhealthily! And after four consecutive matches in cycles of three days, the risk of injury increases by 60%.’
