September 19, 2024, 1:33 PM
September 19, 2024, 1:33 PM
Complaints and threats of strike. The football players and their representativeswith studies who support them, have taken the initiative to slow down the pace more and more infernal of the international calendarheading straight to the FIFA for not having taken into account his health.
This week the Spanish international media raised its voice Manchester City Rodriasked about the possibility of a strike of footballers: “Yes, I think we are close.“.
“If you ask anyone playerwill tell you that it is a general opinion Among footballers, it is not just the opinion of Rodri“If this continues, we will have no other option when the time comes,” he said of the possible strike.
Many footballers consider that the calendar is untenable. Rodri, for example, played a few 60 matches in the past course between the City and the Spanish national teamwith which he won the Eurocupbut ended injured.
The current calendar is “in my humble opinion, excessive“, he insisted. “We have to take care of ourselves, we are the ones main actors of this sport, or of this business “whatever you want to call it.”
At the beginning of September, the French centre-back Dayot Upamecano offered a similar opinion: “Viewers want a nice show but it is complicated to produce it with all these matches“.
“I hope that they (the entities that govern football) understand one day when we play too many matcheswhich causes injurieswe have had two injuries in the (French) national team and if it doesn’t change we will have more,” he continued.
Other important actors such as the captain of Real Madrid Dani Carvajal and his coach Carlo Ancelottihe Brazilian goalkeeper of the Liverpool Allison or the French coach Didier Deschamps They have also regretted that the players are not taken into account when preparing the calendar.
Faced with this situation, FIFPROthe international federation of footballers’ unionsthrough its national antennaspresented a complaint against the FIFA in June, after the international federation unilaterally established a calendar which included the creation of the Club World Cup.
At the heart of the conflict, this tournament of 32 teams which will take place next summer in USAwhich, added to the existing ones, creating “an international calendar beyond the saturation, unbearable for the national leagues and dangerous for the Player health“, he estimated on Wednesday Fifpro Europe and the association of leagues.
Both entities will raise a complaint against the FIFA before the European Commission he October 14thbased on the right to competitionsince the different European leagues They estimate that the proliferation of international competitions damages the attractiveness of the domestic championships.
“It is confirmed that a footballer who plays more than 55 matches per year loses physical intensity and is more exposed to physical injuries and to mental fatigue“, he explained David Terrierthe president of Fifpro Europe to AFP.
In response to those complaintsthe FIFA he brandished a study of the CIES (International Center for Sports Studies) explaining that “the clubs They don’t argue anymore matches per season, which goes against the belief of an increasingly busy calendar.”
From 2012 to 2024, “the average number of matches per club and per season remained stable just above 40. Only the 5% of the teams They dispute on average more than 60 matches per season (not including friendly)”, he said. study independent.
