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Reporting from Melbourne, Australia.

The Canadian gamers the world sees battling on the World Cup are in peak bodily situation. Serving to them put together earlier than and after every match is a assist employees behind the scenes that in any other case goes unseen.

Teren Inexperienced is Canada’s workforce chef on the World Cup. Affectionately referred to as “Chef T,” the Highland Park, Michigan, native is working at his third senior nationwide workforce World Cup and his second in lower than a yr. It’s his first Girls’s World Cup with Canada after serving as workforce chef for the US in 2019.

Inexperienced has a employees of six to 10 folks on a given day. He additionally works carefully with the employees on the workforce resort. A catering division helps herald all of the meals that he and his employees put together, which incorporates three meals per day. Then there are snacks and participant requests, plus particular orders for people who find themselves vegan, are vegetarian or produce other dietary necessities.

“Now we have fish choices, beef choices, rooster choices with each meal,” Inexperienced tells The Equalizer over a pastry at Lune Croissanterie in Melbourne. “Only a ton of selection, but additionally it has to make sense. We sort of base issues off of themes. We’ll have Mexican one night time, Indian one other night time, a pasta station one night time. Every of these themes may have these three proteins with a numerous quantity of greens and carbs.”