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A player reacts after hearing the Mexico manager's demands. Source: AFP
IF YOU notice the Mexican players are a little agitated at next month's FIFA World Cup in Brazil, here's why.
The manager Miguel Herrera has three demands that are, well, rather demanding.
1. NO SEX
Herrera wants his players to avoid sex during the World Cup in Brazil, joking it will be OK to look at but not touch bikini-clad women.
The fiery coach said he would not ban his 23 men from any hanky panky but that he would prefer they practice abstinence during the month-long tournament that kicks off on June 12.
"I am thinking about football and I hope that the boys are thinking about football because nobody has died from practising abstinence for 40 days," Herrera said.
"Some people are virgins until marriage and they are 20 or 25 years old. So, please, nobody will die for 40 days."
Bikini girls are off limits for the Mexican team. Source: Supplied
Asked whether the rule applies to the coaching staff, Herrera said he would be too busy drawing tactics against Group A rivals Brazil, Croatia and Cameroon to think about anything else.
"If you cross a bikini and you see it and that's all, it's no big deal. We will be in front of the beach, it's impossible not to cross a bikini in Brazil, but looking doesn't hurt," he quipped.
Other World Cup managers have addressed the sex issue.
Brazil's Luiz Felipe Scolari said in April that he told his players that they can have "normal sex" before games but they should avoid any under-the-sheets acrobatics.
Mexico star Javier Hernandez (left) in happier times. Source: News Limited
2. NO BEEF
Mexico's World Cup players are being banned from eating beef, a move aimed at avoiding positive doping tests from meat contaminated with the performance-enhancing drug clenbuterol.
Herrera said he had told his players more than a month ago not to eat red meat.
During the 2011 Gold Cup, five Mexico players tested positive for clenbuterol, a muscle-building drug. The Mexican Football Federation eventually cleared the players of doping.
The World Anti-Doping Agency accepted what it termed "compelling evidence" that meat in Mexico was contaminated with clenbuterol and produced the positive tests.
"Our training centre has determined, based on what happened in the past, that red meat shouldn't be eaten," Herrera said.
Defender Miguel Ponce, who was left out of the original 23-man team, said he had been eating some red meat. He was added to the team recently to replace injured midfielder Juan Carlos Medina.
"I ate a few tacos, but I hope there is no problem," Ponce said. "From now on I'll follow what's been requested."
The man making all the rules, Mexico coach Miguel Herrera. Source: AFP
3. NO BOOZE
Herrera also banned his players from drinking.
"Let's play a World Cup, we're not going to a party."
That's fair enough, you might think. But when you combine no booze with no sex and no beef, the World Cup becomes every man's nightmare.
The Coronas will have to stay on ice. Source: News Corp Australia
- with wire agencies
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