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Indian Express
06-06-2025
- Indian Express
FIFA World Cup 2026: How Thomas Tuchel's England are relying on a 60 pound pill and heat chambers in their World Cup campaign
A 60 pound pill to track heat resistance in a player's body along with training in heat chambers is what the Thomas Tuchel coached England football team is undergoing in their FIFA World Cup 2026 qualification training programme. While England have won its opening two matches of the Group K in their FIFA World Cup 2026 qualification route, the team has spent a week in Girona, Spain this month to simulate extremely hot and humid conditions they could face in the 2026 World cup to be played in USA, Canada and Mexico. 'Using them (the tracking pill) in a training environment is lower risk than that. The players would be doing minimal contact either side of the heat acclimation sessions. It is very simple tech that has been around for quite a while. They are very accurate. They allow us to store more data than we actually need so you can sample body temperature between five and 30 seconds, and the download time is really quick. We can get a measure of core body temperature during activity,' Dr Lee Taylor, of the sports science school at Loughborough University, told The Guardian. While England team had practised heat acclimatisation prior to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, where they reached the quarter-finals, it's the first time that the players are undergoing the fitness Tests including the tracking of heat resistance data. According to the BBC, there have been warnings that temperatures at 14 to 16 stadiums being used for the FIFA World Cup 2026 could exceed 'Potentially dangerous levels' during the tournament to be played from June 11 to July 19 next year. According to the Guardian, the pills send information on a radio frequency to be read in real time by sports scientists. The pills beam the data to a 'gateway'-a wristband in case of athletes-which uploads the data to -the cloud- from where data is accessible to analyse including a player's core and surface temperature, heart-rate and other crucial metrics. England players Eberechi Eze and Cole Palmer have talked about the training in heat chambers while their body reaction was measured via the pills. 'It was tough. It was 35C, 36C inside the tents and we had to get to a certain watts [level] on the bike and maintain it. For 45 minutes.' Palmer told The Guardian. According to the newspaper, the pulls have been used by athletes in athletics, rugby and motor racing. Taylor also talked about telling the players that 'they are not to retrieve them'. 'The players would be doing minimal contact either side of the heat acclimation sessions. It is very simple tech that has been around for quite a while. They are very accurate. They allow us to store more data than we actually need so you can sample body temperature between five and 30 seconds, and the download time is really quick. We can get a measure of core body temperature during activity. We do make it very clear to them that they are not to retrieve them', said Dr Taylor. Last week, Tuchel had spoken about the expected conditions at the 2026 World Cup venues. 'It is important to see matches now in America, and in Miami at three in the afternoon. I will see that. How it looks, and we need to understand how to cool the players down, to drink. What our options are. Let's see because it is after the season, so it will be very similar. The actual experience is for the players, but I have done pre-season there in Orlando and I will be very surprised if we do not suffer. Suffering is one of the headlines for this World Cup,' Tuchel told BBC. England now play Andorra at RCDE Stadium in Spain in their third Group K match in 2026 World Cup qualification. The team has won its last two matches sitting at the top of the group. Dr Taylor also talked about the training regime of the England team in the training camps. 'They (Tuchel and staff) will do technical and tactical work in a temperate environment. So they are not stressing the players too much and then they will give them passive or semi-active heat exposures. I imagine they are getting the players to a specific core temperature, they stop exercising and then when their core temperature drops they exercise a little bit more,' concluded Dr Taylor.
San Francisco Chronicle
05-06-2025
- San Francisco Chronicle
Sergiño Dest to miss CONCACAF Gold Cup, further weakening US in last tournament before World Cup
CHICAGO (AP) — Sergiño Dest was dropped from the U.S. roster for the CONCACAF Gold Cup over fitness concerns, leaving the Americans heading to the tournament with just four players who started in the team's final match of the 2022 World Cup. 'The technical, medical and high performance staffs have done a series of evaluations this week on all the players in camp, and in the case of Sergiño we determined the best decision is for the player to have an individualized training program for the summer so he can focus on being fully recovered and ready to perform next season,' coach Mauricio Pochettino said in a statement Thursday. Dest, a starter at outside back, tore an ACL during training with PSV Eindhoven on April 20, 2024, and returned to action March 8. He appeared is seven matches, including four starts, but didn't play a full 90 minutes until the season finale on May 18. Trying to rebound after flops in last summer's Copa America and the CONCACAF Nations League in March, the U.S. already was missing Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Tim Weah, Antonee Robinson, Yunus Musah, Folarin Balogun and Gio Reyna. Pulisic wanted time off, Robinson had knee surgery on May 27, Balogun has an ankle injury and Musah asked out for a reason the U.S. Soccer Federation didn't specify. Weah, McKennie and Reyna were blocked from the tournament by FIFA, which ruled team's in the Club World cup have priority to players. The only players on the 26-man roster who started in the second-round loss to the Netherlands at the 2022 World Cup are goalkeeper Matt Turner, central defenders Tim Ream and Walker Zimmerman, and midfielder Tyler Adams. The Americans have friendlies against Turkey on Saturday at East Hartford, Connecticut, and Switzerland three days later at Nashville, Tennessee, then meet Trinidad and Tobago, Saudi Arabia and Haiti in the first round of the Gold Cup. Fifteen players are from Major League Soccer and seven could make national team debuts: goalkeepers Chris Brady and Matt Freese; defenders Alex Freeman and Nathan Harriel; midfielders Sebastian Berhalter and Quinn Sullivan; and forward Damion Downs. The roster: Goalkeepers: Chris Brady (Chicago), Matt Freese (New York City), Matt Turner (Crystal Palace) Defenders: Max Arfsten (Columbus), Alex Freeman (Orlando), Nathan Harriel (Philadelphia), Mark McKenzie (Toulouse), Tim Ream (Charlotte), Chris Richards (Crystal Palace), Miles Robinson (Cincinnati), John Tolkin (Holstein Kiel), Walker Zimmerman (Nashville) Midfielders: Brenden Aaronson (Leeds); Tyler Adams (Bournemouth), Sebastian Berhalter (Vancouver), Johnny Cardoso (Real Betis), Luca de la Torre (San Diego), Diego Luna (Salt Lake), Jack McGlynn (Houston), Quinn Sullivan (Philadelphia); Malik Tillman (PSV Eindhoven)
