Xavi just suggested a way to solve the calendar problem. And it involves playing for nine months and the month of June is used for national team matches before the holidays.
A proposal that for now and until 2030 is impossible according to the calendar approved by FIFA in December 2022 and that was also reported by LaLiga to CAS.
Calendar that only sees change after the 2026 World Cup in the September and October windows. Until then it remains as it is today.
In the next two years 2024-2025 there will be five delays for them to play their international matches. Almost identical to this year 2023. In 2024 the first is from March 18 to 26 and the second from June 3 to 11 except for UEFA because it has a dispute with the Euro Cup from June 14 to July 14. The third is scheduled for September 2 to 10, the fourth from October 7 to 15 and the last from November 11 to 19, 2024.
By 2025 plus five other windows: March 17-25; June 2 to 10; September 1 to 9, October 6 to 14 and finally from November 10 to 18.
We have to wait until 2026 for this change and it will come after the World Cup in the United States and Canada. Before the Olympic event, two windows are maintained (March 23 to 31 and June 1 to 9). The big change in the international calendar will come in September where the break from the current eight days will be a total of 16. Specifically from September 21 to October 6 and where teams will play up to four games. This way, the October window will disappear and there will only be an interruption in November (9-17) with two games in contention so far. But nothing about its transfer in the month of June.
And it will stay like this until 2030, the date of the World Cup in Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. In the year 2027 the four windows are as follows: March 22-30, June 7-15; September 20 – October 5 including 4 meetings and from November 8 to 16. In 2028 it will be distributed in a similar way: March 20-28, May 29 to June 6 before the Euro Cup and Copa América; September 18 to October 3 including four meetings and from November 13 to 31.
In 2029 they are designed like this: March 19 to 27, June 4 to 12; September 24 to October 4 with four meetings and from November 12 to 20. Finally, in 2030, the first is planned for March 18 to 26, and the second for June 3 to 11 before the World Cup. Then it will stop from September 23 to October 8 with four matches and finally from November 11 to 19.
This strategy of Xavi, with its logic, does not seem to be realized because certainly in the summer it is used to compete in continental tournaments, the World Cup, the new format of the FIFA Club World Cup. And selection matches can never be played.
Source: La Verdad
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