Sports and Science volume 1 issue 1 | Page 14

Diet and Soccer Performance

Every week there is a new study made investigating the correlation between diet and soccer performance. Back in 1973 David Muckle, nutritionist in Oxford University, performed his first study about how diet affects soccer performance. He found out that the performance of the players develop by drinking glucose syrup prior to the start of the match. Researchers in the same field nowadays believed that high carbohydrate diets and glucose supplements improved the workout overall.

So soccer players,under the supervison of the nutritionist of the team,began to drink glucose syrup before