Ang accumulation of matches on the legs of professional players is often mentioned as one of the major cause injury to footballers. Not all of them, as there is a percentage of traumatic illnesses that are not the result of stress, although this factor may have some influence on the accident due to muscle fatigue of the footballer who adds minutes and minutes of competition without, many times, the necessary rest to recover from the efforts.
The issue is not new. Contests are proliferatingbattles and inevitable journeys are chained up without disruption, economic interests are forcing clubs to try to exploit the goose that lays golden eggs to satiety and ultimately, the payers maximum fee they are often the players themselves, with long -term injuries.
It’s curious how 50 years ago heard voices calling a Calendar moderation, to pay attention to the health of the players. On April 12, 1972, Mundo Deportivo published a report by Brian Glanville from London which can be read “The main problem in the world of football is that it’s being played too much.”
The assertion is consistent with injuries suffered by three internationals English (Bob McNab, from Arsenal, Roy McFarland, from Derby County, and Allan Mullery, from Tottenham) who hid them for a long time from the grounds that season. They all suffered from disorders in the pelvic area as a result, according to the prevailing theory at the time, of too many battles, which reaches 60 or 70 per exercise, according to the columnist.
“The World Cup, the European Cup for national teams and the various European competitions for club teams place great demands on the time and endurance of the players,” Glanville wrote. The author promotes “some shorter leaguesthe ‘sudden death’ instead of the two-leg tie, home and away, in European tournaments; and the end of excessive competitions such as sponsored competitions and maybe even the European Cup for national teams. But it is urgent to fix this situation.
More competition and battles than ever before
50 years later, not only fixed the overload of this calendar but has increased more: the World Cups passed from 16 to 32 teams in its final stages; reach the end of European Championship involved the dispute of 10 games, which rose to at least 17 (based on the number of teams in the qualifying groups) currently; to win at european cup 9 games are needed and now, 13; the project of Club Super World Cup These included 24 teams with five games to become champions when the Intercontinental, at the time, was resolved in two games; the was nothing Supercup of Spain Now it is forcing its finalists to play two games, in addition to a trip to Arabia.
And since then they were born (in 1973) the European Super Cup (a double party until 1997, a single party since then) and the UEFA Nations League, in 2018. 50 years later, not only has the need to lighten the calendar been resolved but it seems more stringent than ever. Maybe in 50 years …
Source: La Verdad
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