Fitness can be the difference between winning and losing. As one team runs out of steam in the dying minutes of a game, the opposition sweep up field with a lung busting effort to clinch victory.
Innate ability is a gift from the football gods, but endurance is something you can improve with hard work and the right programme.
Clocking up more than 570 games in 20 years as a professional footballer, former Sunderland striker Don Goodman knows a thing or two about the importance of fitness.
In this video Goodman imparts his experience and expertise with his top three tips for enhancing stamina to boost match performance.
Also see:
Don Goodman: Warming up as a sub
Don Goodman: Play off a target man
Don Goodman: Split the defence
Strikers: How to work the channels
Picking yourself up
