When you save a nation—a football-crazed nation the likes of Mexico—from missing out on the World Cup, you have free rein. Don't think for a second Mexican national team head coach Miguel Herrera isn't taking advantage of it. The former Club America manager has prohibited the 23 men on his World Cup roster from having sexual relations of any kind until after the World Cup (per Tactico MX).
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For Herrera, the message is clear: This is not a vacation.
"If a player can't go 20 days or a month without having sexual relations, then he's not ready to be a professional," he said.
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Additional costs of representing Mexico in the World Cup include a ban on smoking and indulging in alcoholic beverages.
Now, Herrera isn't the only World Cup participant that has enforced such a provocative ban. Brazilian national team head coach Luis Felipe Scolari didn't exactly ban his players from having sex at the World Cup. He did, however, ban them from having "acrobatic" sex (h/t to Sports Illustrated). "The players can have normal sex during the World Cup," Scolari said.
When asked to clarify, he added this descriptive gem: "Usually normal sex is done in a balanced way, but some like to perform acrobatics," he added.
"We will put limits and survey the players."
Obviously, enforcing a rule the likes of Scolari's is much tougher than Herrera's, but both teams enter the World Cup with the pressures of succeeding. Those pressures have trickled down to the players.
So if the head coach isn't having fun as they deal with the national media, neither will the players.
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