Dietary Intake Recommendations for High-Performance Youth Soccer Players

Haniel Fernandes
Estácio de Sá College, Nutrition Departament, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil

Correspondence to: Fernandes H, Estácio de Sá College, Nutrition Departament, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil
Received date: November 03, 2022; Accepted date: November 18, 2022; Published date: November 25, 2022
Citation: Fernandes H (2022) Dietary Intake Recommendations for High Performance Youth Soccer Players. J Clin Biomed Invest 2(2): p. 36. doi: 10.52916/jcbi224017
Copyright: ©2022 Fernandes H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Keywords

Energy, Carbohydrates, Protein, Dietary, Physiology, Anatomy, Biology

Youth soccer players undergo a rapid growth and maturational changes which result in physiological, anatomical, and biological changes [1] that's why these players exhibit increased nutritional requirements to support the energy demands of growth and performance. What should to reinforce the importance of nutritional support because there are findings that shows mean energy deficits almost 900 kcalday^-1 in high performance youth soccer players [2]. A recent research evaluated eighty-one high performance youth soccer players (10-16 years old; U10-U16), competing in 11-a-side matches, and concluded total match running distance increased with age from ~5700 (U11) to ~6700 mh^-1 (U15) [3] having greater area go through as age increases and, consequently, there should be greater attention to the energy intake of these athletes. Recently a work demonstrated mean values of total energy expenditure of 2859 kcalday-1 (68 kcalkg^-1day^-1), 3029 kcalday-1 (50 kcalkg^-1day^-1), and 3586kcalday^-1 (44 kcalkg^-1day^-1), using indirect calorimetry and doubly-labelled water for U12/13, U15, and U18 English Premier League players, respectively [4].

The findings from nitrogen balance methodology in high performance youth soccer players showed requirements of 1.4 gkg^-1day^-1 which are higher than recommended daily allowances but in-line with guidelines for adults athletes [5]. Other findings suggest currently consume between 5 and 7 gkg^-1 day^-1 CHO daily with the majority currently around 5 gkg^-1day^-1, irrespective of age or nationality into high performance youth soccer players [6]. Current evidence suggests high performance youth soccer players do not periodize their energy intake and carbohydrate intake to match the demands of training and competition [7]. Such as proved recently be a beneficial strategy for improve performance into adults soccer players athlete’s [8,9]. Therefore, the dietary recommendations strategies for high performance youth soccer players resemble the same recommendations for elite adult soccer players. As such, Table 1 encompasses the evidence-based calorie, carbohydrate, and protein recommendations demonstrated by this letter for high performance youth soccer players across three age group averages.

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