MLS Commissioner Don Garbermade sure he understood the position of LaLiga president, Javier Tebas, which asked FIFA to cancel the 2025 Club World Cup, and highlighted the need for leagues and world football’s governing bodies to sit down and talk to find solutions that satisfy all parties involved.
“I am excited that two of my teams will participate in the Club World Cup. I would say that we should all be aware of the calendar, and I understand the opinion of Javier (Thebes). cI think we all need to work to see if we can be a more committed part of the decision-making process, and I would include the Club World Cup in that,” he said. Garber.
“We, as a league, are aware like everyone else of the toll that the various competitions in which they have to compete will take on our players,” the MLS commissioner added.
Garber’s intervention, who participated on Wednesday in a sports leadership forum in London, comes at a time of high tension in international football, after European leagues, including Spain, and the International Federation of Professional Footballers (FIPRO) were denounced on Monday to FIFA before the European Commission for abusing its dominant position in community football.
It’s a discomfort that comes from afar and is exacerbated by proximity Club World Cup 2025, which according to current plans will bring together 32 teams in the United States next summer. The tournament will be held in conjunction with the Gold Cup, which is also organized on American soil.
A saturated North American calendar
The international football calendar is becoming more intense and, for example, the real Madrid He could play a total of 72 games this year if he continues the seven tournaments in which he is participating.
The MLS agenda tIt is also particularly intense. The American league predicts a regular season of 34 days, with several ‘playoffs’ providing an unusual first round of best-of-three games. In total, a franchise can play 41 games to win the MLS Cup.
Added to the domestic competition are the CONCACAF Champions League, the United States Cup and the Leagues Cup, a tournament launched in 2023 that gives each club a maximum of seven matches.
Inter Miami, who won the 2023 Leagues Cup, did not participate in the US Cup this season and are prioritizing the CONCACAF Champions League.
Thebes asked
Javier Tebasthis week asked his FIFA counterpart, Gianni Infantino, to withdraw the 2025 Club World Cup, because “it is not necessary for the players, or for the clubs, or for FIFA and all it does is not fine.”
“President of FIFA, you know that you did not sell the audiovisual rights for the budget that you said. You know that you do not have sponsorships as you budgeted and you know that the leagues and the players’ unions do not want the World to that. Cup, take back that World Cup” he said.
“Take it back and let’s sit down to negotiate. Dialogue and negotiation are different, negotiations end with an agreement and dialogue ends with nothing, we have been talking with FIFA for years. I am sure that we will reach agreements. The purposes Ito is for the world of We also have football.
Source: La Verdad
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