Darren Burgess - Head of fitness and conditioning
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First Name:Darren
Surname:Burgess
Town of Birth:Sydney
Job Title:Head of fitness and conditioning
Joined:2010
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Darren joined Liverpool from the Australian national football side following the 2010 World Cup.

The Aussie had spent three years as fitness and conditioning coach with the Socceroos prior to his Anfield move.

Having studied at the University of New South Wales and the Australian Catholic University, where he is in the final stages of a PHd in movement analysis, Darren went on to work with elite AFL teams such as Port Adelaide FC and Sydney Swans, as well as National League Soccer team Parramatta Power. He also worked as head of sports science for the Australian Football Federation.

"I'm absolutely stoked to work for Liverpool Football Club," he said. "I've been watching Premier League football since it began and stayed up every Saturday night back in Australia to watch it at about two or three o'clock in the morning.

"Basically I'm in charge of the players' fitness levels and so my job is to prepare them to play hopefully 50 to 60 games a season. My job also involves preventing injuries from happening.

"We need to monitor everything from their sleep to their eating habits. Each session we know exactly how far they have run, walked, jogged, sprinted and turned, so we keep a pretty close eye on them and this comes under my role."

 

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