What should a typical soccer player eat?

[snsj4]

What should a typical soccer player eat? What kind of diet should they have? how many calories should they not go over? What should they eat daily?

[terrywilson]

Pasta, lots of carb related food, also protein not from fatty foods. I eat sushi 3-5 times a week as this covers both carbs "rice" and protein "salmon and tuna". Also I eat alot of pasta with pesto and grill a chicken breast to go with it.

[mikelley037]

food

[Elninho]

Originally posted by mikelley037
food

Yeah, helps if it's edible.

[TheTornado]

You should eat a lot of carbs and protein but about three to four days before a game you should start "carboloading" this means that you eat four to five small meals a day each containing a high amount of carbohydrates, also, a couple of hours before the game it is always good to drink an isotonic there are a bunch of isotonic drinks that you can buy I prefer to make my own all you have to do is have a 50:50 mix of Fruit Juice and Water I usually use Lemons they are the only fruit that is strong enough to change the way the water tastes signifigantly but taste isn't the important thing its the 50:50 mix that is important