Welcome to Soccer 101, the podcast where we endeavour to tell you everything you need to know about the beautiful game and some of the stuff you don't.

My name is Ryan Bailey and joining me today. We have

the bros with the nose, the man's with the plans and the chances with the answers starting

off with Taylor Rockwell. Hello, that was a rhyming introduction that I definitely approve of.

Thank you for that my friend. You're very welcome. Also here, Mr. Joseph Lowry. Hello, Joe.

Hello, Ryan. And Gran Ruthven rounding out the pack.

Hey, G, unit.

Hello, I'm definitely a chance, sir.

Not sure I've got many answers, but we'll see how it goes.

We will soon find out, Graham.

We'll soon find out the topic today is timely.

Today, we're going to answer the question.

What does a soccer player do between seasons?

This being timely, of course, for the European seasons, where most of them, except for local ones to Graham, haven't started yet at the time we are recording.

So we're trying to find out do players actually have downtime in an era when soccer never sleeps like New York, the city they

named after a place in England, it's so good, that's my understanding. How long do players

get off? What do they do in preseason? What is it actually do when they're off and which

Mediterranean destination are they all on yachts at? There's lots of questions to be answered here,

Tatei.

Why don't we start off by sort of tackling how long a modern soccer player actually gets off?

Because many of these players in top divisions are playing 60 or 70 games in a season.

They need themselves a break. What's your understanding of how much of a break they actually get?

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