Guardiola warns: it’s the complaints about the calendar that prove him right about the injuries

Gavi, Vinicius, Camavinga, Oyarzabal… International commitments have once again left a trail of injuries that have caused controversy in the affected clubs. This problem is repeated and repeated, although it is not exclusive to national teams. In recent years the number of fights has increased and in the future it seems that there will be more. That’s why there are those who raise their voices. As happened with Pep Guardiola. The Manchester City coach left some interesting reflections last summer when De Bruyne was injured. He also gave examples of Militao and Courtois.

“In my first preseason with him Barça I had 25 days to prepare for the first official match against to qualify for the Champions League that year, which we won. Now, they give you four days, five days… and in the end see how many crusaders there are,” he said then, referring to the Madridistas.

“They sent you Asia, to the United Stateswith very strong matches, derbies, big matches… and people will fall and continue to fall because ‘show must go on’ and if Courtois It is not there, because there will be another, and if military is not there, well there will be another one, and if it is not there KevinWell, there’s one more,” he added.

“Finish the Champions and they go to the national teams for two or three weeks, next year there is Club World Cupgo to USA with 37 teams to compete with Club World Cup when it was new Liberators and the Champions. “It’s too much and therefore you have to adapt, move forward, train a little, be at home a lot and have energy in the games,” he explained.

And he concluded by saying “it is a lost battle until the players stand up and say: we are not playing. Otherwise, nothing will be done, even in the meetings of UEFA nor of FIFA. And on top of that, now they add more minutes, now there are 110 minutes. This means that at the end of the year we will not be able to play 38 games, but 43.