Mexico coach Miguel Herrera has banned his team from having sex during the team participation at the world cup next month in Brazil. The coach who gave his team the luxury of flirting with social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter as much as they will like has placed embargo on sex to his squad.
Herrera was quoted on Reforma newspaper “No, no one,” “If a player can’t go one month or 20 days without having sexual relations, then they are not prepared to be a professional player. All the players we have selected have a pretty good resume, they all have won great things, they have been champions and obviously, they know what they want to achieve.”
Herrera said further “So then we will not be looking for sex or having sex at the World Cup just to have it, we are going to go after what we came for, a competition that gives us the opportunity to rise above and do something really great. So I don’t think that the guys even have this [sex] on their minds. They don’t have an idea about it. We talked about it because there was a buzz about it and we got criticised because I commented that in a team you have to worry about what is best for the team. In a club, you lose one week and you get a second chance the next week. But on a national team, you lose once and you are out of the World Cup.”
He however admitted that there was no way he could have enforced the sex ban but the players understand the objective of the team “I am not thinking about prohibiting sex. I am thinking about football. I hope the players are thinking the same way,” he said. “Forty days of sexual abstinence is not going to hurt anyone.”
Mexico struggled all through the qualification as they only made it to the world cup via play-off after beating New Zealand. it must be recall the this measure was take when At the 2011 Copa America Mexico finished last in their group after eight players were sent home for inviting prostitutes to their hotel in Quito, Ecuador.