Christian Pulisic at AC Milan

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  1. Casper

    Casper Member+

    Mar 30, 2001
    New York
    Probably just a food coma, though.
     
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  2. freisland

    freisland Member+

    Jan 31, 2001
    Listeria do that to a body.

    Just sayin'
     
  3. TimB4Last

    TimB4Last Member+

    May 5, 2006
    Dystopia
    Hope CP recovers soon because I just read Chelsea's next opponent in the FA Cup won today with a team full of players I've never even heard of. Should be like taking candy from a baby.
     
  4. Centennial

    Centennial Member+

    Apr 4, 2003
    Centennial
    I’m still waiting for the season ending surgery announcement.
     
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  5. y-lee-coyote

    y-lee-coyote Member+

    Dec 4, 2012
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    I don't think it is a given that a nutritionist cannot make an allowance for those ingredients in an overall dietary plan. His alleged tendency to get injured could easily be attributable to being undersized and under-powered. When he was in the Buli he was a built like a kid playing huge minutes against GAM, sooner or later he was bound to break. He is a young guy playing his first year in the PL, and I think he simply needs time to get stronger.

    Maybe he has a diet issue, I just think you took a huge leap not supported by the evidence in hand.
     
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  6. DeCoverley

    DeCoverley Member

    Aug 9, 2007
    San Francisco
    Club:
    AC Milan
    A weekly burrito is going to make a difference? Come on, man. What would you substitute for the protein/carbs? How clean do you think most athletes eat?

    And o/t: the world does not face real threats of a global food shortage. On the contrary, the output of current agriculture is more than enough to feed everyone, and most of the world is nowhere near maximum theoretical yields, even with current technology.
     
  7. gogorath

    gogorath Member+

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    May 12, 2019
    There’s plenty of healthy things to eat at Chipotle.

    I just question his choice of “Mexican” food. Chipotle is the blandest failed attempt at Mexican I’ve ever had.
     
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  8. Sylvius

    Sylvius Member

    Jul 18, 2013
    Philadelphia
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    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Agreed, Chipotle is bland and a poor excuse for Mexican food. Germany and England may not have that many better options. Healthy, though, it is not.

    Let's all just be thankful Puli is better off than Ousmane Dembele. Poor guy.
     
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  9. freisland

    freisland Member+

    Jan 31, 2001
    I haven't lived in Munich in 30 years, but when I did there was one "Mexican" resto. I ran around with a fair number of Cali expats and we would go there every once in a while to get a bit of "home flava." The guac was not terrible, but the tortilla were... well. let's say we tended toward thing with more sauce - which tended to taste a lot like marinara... But the tequila was real.

    I'm sure it's better now. (I sure hope so!)
     
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  10. EruditeHobo

    EruditeHobo Member+

    Mar 29, 2007
    San Francisco, CA
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    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Munich-Mexican... jesus christ. No thank you.
     
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  11. Pisscutter

    Pisscutter Member

    Apr 15, 2005
    The wife and I decided to try a Mexican restaurant in Salzburg's Old Town back in 2004. After being seated (the only patrons), the proprietor asked us where we were from and we told him "Southern California", which resulted in him bombarding us with questions on how to make good Mexican food.

    Didn't fill us with optimism, nor did watching him put a plate of nachos in the microwave WITH guacamole on it.

    Almost as bad as the "Mexican" food in NYC.

    *Surprisingly, we found a decent Mexican meal in, of all places, Prague. (One would think we learned our lesson, but their sign advertising margaritas got the better of us.) Probably on par with El Torito, which is saying jack sh*t to a guy in Southern California, but passable enough.
     
  12. Bruce S

    Bruce S Member+

    Sep 10, 1999
    1000 calories vs a typical 500 calories sandwich=500 calorie difference.
    52 weeks=26,000 calories.3,500 calories=1lb of stored fat. 1 burrito/week= 7 1/2 extra lbs per year. Morbid obesity in 10-15 years.
     
  13. freisland

    freisland Member+

    Jan 31, 2001
    And this was the 80s! We were beggars, my Train Hopping friend. We were not choosers.
     
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  14. randomnoise

    randomnoise Member

    United States
    Mar 26, 2017
    I remember when i lived in Copenhagen in the late nineties, making Mexican food for my Danish friends. It was like an earth-shattering experience for them. The only difficulty was getting the ingredients. There were literally no decent restaurants in the city to get anything that resembled "real" Mexican. And the pizza was not a whole lot better either...
     
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  15. madvillain

    madvillain Member+

    Aug 28, 2011
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    Brooklyn Knights
    Never made it to Sunset Park? Protip: in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood you can experience some of the world's best Asian food on 7th ave and some of the world's best Mexican/DR/PR on 5th. You can walk up to like 80th on 7th and fill your self with pork buns and noodles and on the way back down to the train on 36th you can fill yourself with mufungo, tamales, tacos and more.
     
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  16. DHC1

    DHC1 Member+

    Jun 3, 2002
    NYC
    I'm 100% with you on pushing back on the quality of NYC mexican food but Sunset Park doesn't have the best Asian food in NYC, let alone the world, madvillain.
     
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  17. wrench

    wrench Member+

    May 12, 2007
    NYC
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Shanghai Joe's Flushing. Soup dumplings from heaven.
     
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  18. jond

    jond Member+

    Sep 28, 2010
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    Levski Sofia
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    United States
    I can't wait for Puli's 30 for 30 ESPN documentary.

    Captain America was on track to take over the EPL and become the best American of his generation until........his once a week burrito habit threw his trajectory into a downward tailspin he never recovered from.

    This thread is nutz.

    [​IMG]
     
  19. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    DC United
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    United States
    I have another very frequent YA poster on ignore because his signal to noise ratio is awful. It's often more trouble than it's worth because threads turn into Garfield Without Garfield.

    It's probably better to gently suggest to the poster that this isn't a competition to win the Skip Bayless Award. It's a message board where soccer nuts like ourselves can talk amongst ourselves and learn.
     
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  20. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

    Notts County and NYCFC
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    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's from transfrmkt.

    Michael Owen was a classic case of burnout. As a teenager he played for his school, his county and for Liverpool, meaning at times he was playing 3 or 4 competitive games alone. He also played up front alone where the only way defenders could deal with his pace was to kick him at every possible opportunity at a time when you could get away with a lot more.

    Not sure what sort of schedule CP had in his early teens but you saw the way Los Ticos' defenders dealt with him.
     
  21. smokarz

    smokarz Member+

    Aug 9, 2006
    Hartford, CT

    In his 17/18 season, he played over 3,000 minutes for BvB in all competitions. In addition, he probably played around 500-1000 min for the USMNT (can't pull any stats on this yet). And all those long flights across the ocean also add up.

    It's fair to say, he probably exhausted that young body. Both physically and mentally. You can start to see the impact of that in his following season. In 18/19, he missed nearly 1/3 of BvB league games due to recurring injuries.

    Hopefully he recognized that his body is not built like a tank, like other athletes. Work hard to improve his training, diet, and rest plenty in between. I am sure Chelsea trainer and his personal trainer probably already told him all that.

    This is the second or third time that he's been out for Chelsea due to injury. Hoping this is not a trend going forward.
     
  22. dspence2311

    dspence2311 Member+

    Oct 14, 2007
    He needs to hire a spiritual consultant to make sure all his chakras are good. Sounds like maybe the second or third chakra has a petal that has become detached. The right mantras will have him as right as rain.
     
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  23. smokarz

    smokarz Member+

    Aug 9, 2006
    Hartford, CT

    Why the hell am I thinking of Naruto? Lol
     
  24. autogolazzo

    autogolazzo Member+

    Mar 4, 2007
    Didn't Reyna (Claudio) bulk up a good bit in his career in Europe by hitting the weights?
     
  25. autogolazzo

    autogolazzo Member+

    Mar 4, 2007
    Yeah, but he is a professional athlete. Don't you think he burns a few more calories (like twice or three times as much) than the average guy who sits all day?

    Michale Phelps ate 12,000 calories per day.

    Should Pulisic be trying to get bigger or smaller?
     
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