The She Kicks Locker Room: The Before & After with Vero Boquete

Bayern Munich and Spain playmaker Vero Boquete, a Champions League winner with Frankfurt in 2015 and a runner-up with Tyreso the year before, describes her pre- and post-match habits. With two o’clock kick-offs she eats a very large breakfast four hours out, drinks heavily the day before and increases carbohydrates in the run-up; recovery starts with a shake in the thirty-minute window after the whistle and a squad meal. She meditates for twenty minutes every morning, something that has helped particularly while returning from injury, and uses visualisation of real match situations before games. She names Lisa Evans and Eunice Beckmann as the ones who bring joy to a sometimes serious German dressing room.