In the wake of Gabriel Heinze’s departure from Atlanta United on Sunday has been a slew of revelations about his training practices and working relationships with club staff. These range from the quirky to the obnoxious to the extreme, dangerous, and counter productive.
Doug McIntyre of Fox Sports detailed CBA violations and other training methods that seem odd or extreme. The biggest red flag of all of them was that Heinze denied his players water during training. Anyone who has ever been outside in Georgia ever knows that this is a problem and the combination of a strenuous training load plus dehydration can even be deadly.