Sex
and Football - Does sex affect player performance?
For many years there has been this
whole myth about players should not have sex 1-2 days before a match as this
will affect testosterone levels within in the body resulting in affected
performance.. but is this really true?
This is just a suspicion which many sports still abide to as they 'believe'
that no sex before a match helps performance when in fact no scientific
evidence has been produced to back up this point. As World Soccer magazine
states, "It's not the sex the night before, it's the staying up all night
looking for it" which is also seen as another suspicion.. why would the Ghanaian team be banned from
having sex, how is the team management going to enforce the ban, and does not
having sex improve an athlete’s performance on the field? It seems the Ghanaian
football team management has some ideas about the correlation of sex and
football performance that makes them think that having sex will decrease
performance on the field. “Ghanaweb reports that a sex ban has been imposed on
the Ghana squad during the World Cup. It’s hard to know how this might affect
things, nor how it might be enforced, but we must trust in the powers that be
and assume they know their players,”. The same article says that this strategy
allegedly worked for Switzerland in 1994 as well because they got very far in
the tournament before being knocked out by a lucky Spanish side. What is
interesting to note here is that no one on the Ghanaian management team
attributed the winning streak of the Swiss side in the ‘94 World Cup to nothing
more than good play and luck. Even though the Swiss team and their management
denied the no sex rumours, the story became legendary and may have inspired the
current thinking from the African nation.
with an interview with some footballers this is what they have to say
Cue…. players
In truth it wasn't until the arrival of the psychologist Freud and his
psychological and psychiatric disciplines in the late 19th century that the
view of sex as a harmful activity was first thrown into the spotlight.
Scientists are now studying sexual activity related to sports and with a lot of
tests being carried out on a range of athletes from footballers to olympic
runners there is yet to be any concrete evidence which supports the theory of
sex before a match affects performance. A sports medicine scientist from McGill
university in Canada, has carried out various tests and states that "The
idea of sex can make an athlete tired and weak the next day has been
disproved"
The chemistry has also been studied and it is found that far from the act of
depriving the body from vital fluids it can actually increase the volume of
testosterone within the blood. Dr…..speaks to Pravda sports
Cue ….psychologist
And that was a psychgis
Dr Francesca Romana an italian sexual practices expert says on the matter of
sex affecting performance "Sex can work to reduce anxiety, both on a
physical level and psychologically. sensible sexual activity helps the athlete
counter pre-competition stress and helps the athlete appoach their sporting
commitment in
