“If I deal with that pragmatically, I should turn the day upside down. Maybe Egyptian players are accustomed to doing this, but I as a Western person am not. How can I train them at night around 11 or12 after iftar? And how can I train them during the day without water and when they had nothing to eat? We are working on this and seeking to find the best way to overcome fasting fatigue and preventit from hurting the players.”
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