When Pete Vagenas was starting in midfield for the Galaxy more than a decade ago, the team's strategy for dealing with long road trips was to try to make time stand still.
"What you want to do is adjust as much as possible, as quickly as possible, to the destination time," said Barrieu, the Galaxy's director of sports performance and a co-author of volumes on soccer training, performance and travel. "So when you board the plane you're thinking that it's not noon, but it's 3 p.m.
Managing the effects of travel, time changes and fatigue on athletes has become an area of increasing emphasis in U.