Leah Williamson (26) He is in the final stages of a serious anterior cruciate ligament injury that he sustained with the Arsenal and that made him miss the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. The English international gave an extensive interview to the ‘Telegraph’ in which he cried out for a solution to the problem that such a tight schedule represents for the players.
He’ll never forget the night of April 19, 2023. “I looked at my mom and said, ‘I need you to prepare for what’s coming: I tore my ACL,'” the center recalled. “I immediately knew that the World Cup was going away: bang! There was a dead silence and I remember a fan shouting in the stands: ‘Get up’, and I remember thinking: ‘If I can get up, I’ll go straight for you, because “It’s serious and it’s a very sensitive moment.”
“That trip home was scary. I was thinking, ‘I don’t have the energy for this. I’m so tired.’ So many things were taken away from me that year that it was like a take. , take, take,” added the soccer player, who along with another “great” of football in the world, the Norwegian Ada Hegerberg, was has been pointing to loading matches as being responsible for the majority of injuries suffered by female footballers for a few years now, with the ‘boom’ of women’s football.
Williamson, who will reappear shortly after nine months KO, puts it clear: “We are not prepared for this. Nowadays we reach October and the girls say: ‘I’m tired’ because you are carrying a lot of things from the previous season . The way women’s football is approached at the moment, it is not possible to increase the ticket prices or get bigger tickets in the stadiums because there are no more players to watch. Because of this we are sinking, so a solution has to be found soon, otherwise it’s unsustainable.”
As many as 37 players have missed the World Cup simply because of anterior cruciate ligament injuries and just a few days ago we woke up to Sam Kerr (Chelsea) being sidelined for the same reasons. “I don’t want football to get to a point in 10 years where it’s a 40-player team and it’s a little bit like the NFL (which allows unlimited substitutions), or you have one team in the first half and another in the second. “Because you don’t have anybody supporting that pace all year.
“FIFA and UEFA do everything the opposite. I’ve been to some of these meetings and I still don’t understand how, when something goes wrong, they don’t take it seriously. It’s very clear that the calendar is not the only reason for everything these injuries.” , but this is 100 percent one of the main reasons.” And even if England does not qualify for the Olympic Games this summer, the problem remains the same because there is an international window in July. “I thought, well, My companions can finally rest, but then I discover that we have concentration. It’s funny. And the same thing happens to the boys, of course.”
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Source: La Verdad
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