Carl Valeri lost 3.5kg's against Iraq.

If you like talk of men's sweat..read on.

I thought, having seen the wilting Socceroos in the Asian Cup last year, the great thing about Sunday mornings loss to Iraq was how mobile (relatively) we were in the second half.

And the FFA have an interesting interview with Socceroos Strength and Conditioning Coach Darren Burgess on their website.

We did some extensive testing on the players last week in Brisbane and we know how much each player sweats and what the sweat composition is. For example, some players sweat a lot of salt, some players sweat a lot of water and other players sweat a combination, so each player has their own individual drink they consume before and during training and that enables us to ensure that each player gets their own individual rehydration package. For instance David Carney will get a different drink to what Vince Grella will because they have different sweat rates and they sweat differently.