"We had the famous thing called the Gacon [running test] whoever played for Tottenham will know the Gacon. The best features, fun and footballing quizzes, straight to your inbox every week. It starts at 145m and you have 45-seconds to get there, you then walk up 5m [to another cone] and have to run back. It's a continuous thing and there were 16 or 17 cones."
"The only person that I've ever seen complete it was Dele Alli – he was an animal at running."
Kyle Walker played under Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham Hotspur from 2014 to 2017, experiencing the manager's notoriously demanding training methods. Pochettino implemented a grueling running test called the Gacon, which required players to sprint 145 meters in 45 seconds, then walk 5 meters and run back, repeating this pattern across 16 or 17 cones. Despite being one of the fastest players in Premier League history, Walker could not complete this test. Dele Alli, who joined Spurs in 2015, was the only player Walker witnessed successfully finishing the Gacon. Alli's exceptional running ability demonstrated his elite athleticism during his breakthrough season in the Premier League.
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