School of Pharmacy & Nutrition, University of Navarra, 31009 Pamplona, Spain.
French Football Federation Research Centre, 78120 Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines, France.
Nutrients. 2024 Oct 14;16(20):3474. doi: 10.3390/nu16203474.
With ever-increasing training, match-play and travel demands in professional soccer, recovery is vital for athletic performance, a statement amplified in tournament and in-season scenarios. However, alongside supporting the tasks associated with these increased demands, the recovery and wellbeing strategies recommended for playing staff are often unavailable to their support staff counterparts, who routinely experience extended working hours over and above scheduled player attendance.
Focusing on the contributions of nutrition to this undoubtedly multifactorial issue, this narrative review aimed to (1) identify potential strategies to enhance recovery and wellbeing in multi-disciplinary soccer support staff and (2) highlight future research opportunities exploring the benefits of nutrition for those staff in soccer performance-related support roles.
The potential health and wellbeing consequences of chronic sub-optimal practices suggest that chrononutrition strategies may be an area of future interest. Notably, nutritional strategies that enhance sleep hygiene and immune function warrant consideration. Individualizing such strategies to maximize recovery and wellbeing in multi-disciplinary soccer support staff should offer an adjunct and complementary strategy to the holistic performance-focused support provided to professional soccer players.
Policymakers responsible for organizational and club structures aligned with soccer performance could consider 'Supporting the Support Staff' when seeking to improve overall performance.
随着职业足球训练、比赛和旅行需求的不断增加，恢复对于运动员的表现至关重要，这一观点在锦标赛和赛季期间得到了强调。然而，除了支持与这些增加的需求相关的任务外，为球员提供的恢复和健康策略通常无法提供给他们的支持人员，这些支持人员的工作时间通常会超过预定的球员出勤时间。
本文专注于营养对这个多因素问题的贡献，旨在（1）确定增强多学科足球支持人员恢复和健康的潜在策略，以及（2）突出未来探索营养对足球表现相关支持角色的益处的研究机会。
慢性次优实践的潜在健康和福利后果表明，时间营养策略可能是未来的一个研究领域。值得注意的是，增强睡眠卫生和免疫功能的营养策略值得考虑。个性化这些策略以最大限度地提高多学科足球支持人员的恢复和健康，应该为提供给职业足球运动员的整体以表现为重点的支持提供一个辅助和补充策略。
负责与足球表现相关的组织和俱乐部结构的政策制定者在寻求提高整体表现时，可以考虑“支持支持人员”。
