Sports:Madrid vs Athletico :The Making Of A Derby Referee

-Agencies *Mateu has a long-term strategy regarding fitness and strategy training, helped by his fitness coach, to be able to meet the high demands of all matches throughout the season. *Mateu Lahoz gets ready with intense training Madrilenian derby, when the eyes of the city, country and of football fans throughout the world will be judging how he directs the game. In the case of Mateu Lahoz, the international referee who has been chosen as the man to preside over this season's fist big game, he trains in much the same way as the players he will be reffing do. Mateu has a long-term strategy regarding fitness and strategy training, helped by his fitness coach, to be able to meet the high demands of all matches throughout the season. At the moment, the referee's work is a two-tier training regime with two main objectives. Firstly, to keep up the good work carried out in the pre-season, and secondly, to continue improving on his already impressive form. In these workouts, it is key to focus on all the movements that a referee must make during the match's 90 minutes: sudden sprints, changes in direction, getting out of the way… Apart from this, repeated exercise is undertaken to improve stamina. To all this must be added exercises to maintain speed and the prevention of injury. Mateu, for example, never tires of doing sprints in order to be the fastest man of them all out there on the pitch, to be at the right place at the right time. In matches like these, the last thing he needs is for his body to let him down. - MARCA.com