RD Stories The Difficulty Of Watching A Player Over Food

Madura United coach, Rahmad Darmawan (center) (Instagram @MaduraUnited)

JAKARTA - The post on Hansamu Yama InstaStory about his favorite food has become a polemic. Many criticized it because it was considered unhealthy food for an athlete. Moreover, Hansamu is an Indonesian national team player who is a role model.

Madura United coach, Rahmad Darmawan admitted, it is indeed difficult to regulate the consumption of players when they are outside. He had experienced this when training the Indonesian national team. At that time, he and the coaching team were already controlling the players' food.

"We control food and eat with the players in the TC during breakfast, lunch, and dinner time. The calories needed are sufficient, only the naughty ones are there," said the coach who is familiarly called RD to VOI, Wednesday, August 26.

"They eat together, but after the way out there are people who eat according to taste, such as chicken noodles, meatballs," he added.

At that time, RD had done all the means to control his players. Starting from giving a warning to imposing a fine. However, still can't guarantee the players not to do it again.

"The hotel underneath has an employee canteen. So it's troublesome too. They don't even go far enough to get food like that," he said.

As is known, the Indonesian national team coach, Shin Tae-yong applies strict rules regarding the food consumed by players. Even the news circulating, Shin has imposed a fine with a nominal amount of money if there are players caught smoking, drinking alcohol, bad behavior and others.