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Two books about the athletes have been released at the same time. In "The Barcelona Complex" Simon Kuper, a journalist at the Financial Times, analyses how the Spanish football club became a giant, with Mr Messi, its "engine and standard-bearer". "The Master" 【小题1】 Christopher Clarey, a journalist at the New York Times, is a more conventional biography. 【小题2】(base) on interviews with the tennis player and his inner circle, both books offer 【小题3】(value) ideas of how sporting greatness 【小题4】 (achieve).
Modern athletes are more disciplined than their ancestors who often lived like rock stars and expected their bodies to give out before【小题5】 (get) to middle age. In the early 1970s, Johan Cruyff, another Barcelona footballing legend, 【小题6】(be) a chain-smoker. He was so unfit that, during his time at Ajax, Cruyff would hide in the woods 【小题7】 his teammates did running training, only rejoining them for the last lap. Mr Messi, by contrast, credits a mostly vegetarian diet with prolonging his career and has benefited from his club's focus on 【小题8】 science of nutrition, sleep and psychology.
By far 【小题9】 (long) serving member of Mr Federer's team is Pierre Paganini, a former decathlete (十项全能选手) who has been his fitness coach since 2000. "A big part of the reason that I'm here 【小题10】 I am today is definitely because of Pierre," Mr Federer has said.
