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Italian Soccer Club Napoli Bans Sex Two Days Before Matches To Prevent Injuries

Injuries are a part of any sport. For the Italian soccer club Napoli, they’ve called upon the lost art of sex bans to keep their players on the pitch and out of the doctor’s office. For the two days prior to a match, Napoli players are banned from having sex.

Football Italia has the full story (via Dirty Tackle):

“‘Avoiding sexual activity for two days before a game is fundamental to prevent muscular strains, contractions or inflammations,’ Professor Alfonso De Nicola [Napoli's chief medic] told the Corriere del Mezzogiorno newspaper.

‘It is the rule for our squad. There is also a specific work done by my staff and the fitness coaches which is aimed more at prevention than cure.’”

Young men in perfect physical condition with lots of money banned from sex? Seems unlikely. There’s really no way to track this other than the honor code. And you’d think that sex would lead to greater relaxation and non-stressed muscles, though a pent-up libido might just provide an extra gear of energy. Then again, to contradict Professor De Nicola’s report, it would appear that avoiding sexual activity for two days would directly lead to uncontrolled muscular inflammation (Get it? GET IT?!?).

[Football Italia, via Dirty Tackle]

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