One day after the match against Paraguay, at the opening of the final quadrangular of the Pre-Olympic, the Brazilian team players stayed at the delegation’s hotel, in Caracas, for recovery work. One group did activities at the local gym. And another, in the pool.
This program aims to recover the athletes’ muscles. During the afternoon, they were under the care of physiotherapists Michel Aguiar and Odir de Souza and physiologist Giovanni Ramirez.
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The recovery techniques that the athletes underwent included massage and physiotherapy sessions, low-intensity aerobic activities and the use of pneumatic compression boots, an ice bath and a heated pool.
Masseuses Leandro Andrade and Marcus Vinicius were requested by the athletes this Tuesday and helped a lot in the process.
The team is coming off a run of five games in 14 days. On Thursday (8), they face Venezuela, in Caracas, in the second round of the quadrangular that will classify two teams for the Paris Olympics.
