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Italian Club Napoli Credits No-Sex Ban to Lack of Injuries

Gabe Zaldivar@gabezalX.com LogoPop Culture Lead WriterSeptember 7, 2012

NAPLES, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 02:  Lorenzo Insigne of Napoli in action during the Serie A match between SSC Napoli and ACF Fiorentina at Stadio San Paolo on September 2, 2012 in Naples, Italy.  (Photo by Giuseppe Bellini/Getty Images)
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Not sure what you weekend warriors or amateur athletes want to do with his information, but Italian side Napoli credits their ban on sex to their success at limiting injuries. 

Like, for real. 

Larry Brown Sports spotted quite the interesting report from Football Italia that shed some light on the reason one football team has remained stout despite grueling fixtures. 

Professor Alfonso De Nicola spoke with the Corriere del Mezzogiorno newspaper and had this magnificent insight into the matter. 

Avoiding sexual activity for two days before a game is fundamental to prevent muscular strains, contractions or inflammations. 

It is the rule for our squad. There is also a specific work done by my staff and the fitness coaches which is aimed more at prevention than cure.

If you don't want to go down in a heap with a hamstring pull or any other malady, act like Al Bundy and tell your respective Peg Bundy wives, "no," at least 2 days prior to any athletic exertion. 

The good professor continues.

The players must be praised for the professional approach they take in their private lives too. They must always continue certain exercises at home that are taught in the training camp.

Wait, so they can't have sex and they have to do homework exercises as well? I say pack your bags and head to the English Premier League where sports don't infringe on husbandly duties. 

Napoli won their first two fixtures in Serie A this season, so perhaps there is something to this after all. 

As Steve DelVecchio of Larry Brown Sports reminds us, Manny Pacquiao demands similar bans of himself prior to a fight, and footballer Kevin Prince-Boateng may have been weakened from an overzealous girlfriend. 

Either way, it sounds like Napoli is the most well-behaved side in the history of any sport. 

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