Melia La Quinta hotel restaurant senior chef Carlos Xavier has told about special needs professional sportsmen sometimes have.
- Many football clubs have their training camps in Southern Spain. There can be no little things in organization of proper nutrition. We cooperate with doctors of your team and do what they ask us to.
FC Dynamo Kyiv can enjoy Italian and Spanish cuisine. There must be a lot of fruit and vegetables, meat and fish.
There usually are two different soups for dinner, eggs and omelet for breakfast. We don’t use mayo, only salad oil of good quality. Players’ diet doesn’t include pork.
- Do Kyivans have some specific requests?
- As I’ve said we keep in touch with Dynamo doctors. For example they have asked us for date plum.
FC Dynamo Kyiv doctor Andriy Shmorhun has informed:
- Local cuisine meets all requirement of sports nutrition. Products contain a lot of proteins and carbohydrates. Players also need seafood, fruit and vegetables. Some of them have overweight, so we change their diet.
* photos by V. Rasner
