(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 28 – “The increase in injuries in football is also the fault of social media”. Christian Panucci, a former player for Real Madrid and Roma among others, now a coach and TV commentator, guest of the Howden Talk on the risks for athletes organized in Cervia on the occasion of the Italian Golf Open, is convinced of this. “There is a psychological aspect, today for a footballer a bad performance means receiving hundreds of insulting messages that remain in the head. Let’s think of poor Di Lorenzo, an excellent player: how many could he have received after the defeat against Spain at the European Championships? – Panucci underlined – you risk injuries from stress, from negativity from a badly played match. Naturally, preparation also has a role: “It’s not a question of the number of games played in a season, which aren’t many more than the ones we played. It’s that in the summer we prepared our muscles for the fact that, playing in the championship and Champions League, we couldn’t train anymore. If you’re not trained, if you haven’t put in the fuel with your summer job, you risk more today in the summer we go around playing friendlies after a week , all the kids have cramps. In my time, few of us had them, it’s precisely because football has changed.” (HANDLE).
