The elite athlete can extend their sports career and optimize their economic performancee thanks to efficient nutrition.

Tabalú obtains third position in the 1st Edition of the Dépor Innovation Center Startup Challenge.

Being aware that the world sports industry generated more than 330,000 million euros in 2020, which constitutes 1% of the world's gross domestic product (GDP), according to a report by the leading sports marketing company Euromericas Sport Marketing and the Sport Center Hub Innovation, and that it is a sector in constant growth between 8-15% in the last seven years, it can be concluded that it is a highly profitable sector.

The sports business and the volume of investment that is generated, we find it, mainly, away from the field of play, but, yes, directly linked to it. The elite athlete is the fundamental piece because it becomes a potential showcase and/or prescriber for a multitude of brands/services that do not necessarily have to be related to sport, but that choose it for the impact of their professional activity. 

Elite athletes leave nothing to chance, both they and their environment are aware that the volume of business they generate is closely related to their life and sporting success, which is why they always seek to make the most of that sporting career. 

And how can we maximize a sports career? The answer is by extending your sports career, and the way to do it is through efficient nutrition. In Spain we have an innovative company that through gastronomy, developed based on nutritional strategies, improves the performance of elite athletes: Tabalú.

Working together with the team of professionals that accompany elite athletes, this company specializing in sports cuisine translates the requirements of nutritionists into efficient dishes that improve sports performance.

Tabalú builds a personalized diet that is adequate and adapted to the efforts made by each athlete at all times, that is, it adapts it to their sports calendar with the main objective of extending the athlete's professional life and preventing certain injuries. In those cases where the injuries are fortuitous, having a correctly powered system based on your needs will help speed up the recovery process.

In addition, a factor unforgettable is that Tabalú try to search the satisfaction of elite athletes at all levels, while improving their quality of life. In addition to analyzing their nutritional needs, it is interested in their tastes, lifestyles, religious beliefs..., to offer them gastronomic solutions that, in addition to satisfying their nutritional requirements, guided by their specialized team of professionals, are attractive and desirable for them. 

Arguments as stright as extending the sports career of the elite athlete, the high profitability, both for the club and for the footballer, and the ability to integrate into life, routines and the sports calendar, improving the sports performance of the footballer, have led to Tabalú. to take third place in the 1st Edition of the Dépor Innovation Center Startup Challenge.

Startups are a booming sector in Spain with an investment in 2021 of more than 4,300 million euros.