The strike of key football personnel cannot be abandoned, the spokesman of FIFPro, an international union of players, warned this Wednesday in the face of the rejection caused by the expansion of the Club World Cup.
The tournament, managed by FIFA, will expand from 7 to 32 teams and will be held in the United States between June and July of next year. Real Madrid and Atlético are among its participants.
This new format has been the subject of a fierce reaction and has been announced by FIFPro your concern about physical and mental effects what it can have on players as a result of an increasingly tight schedule.
There are precedents in other sports
“We have seen player strikes in different sports. We have also seen it in professional football and the players have actively spoken about it,” he said. Alexander Bielefeld director of policy and strategic relations at FIFPro, in statements to Associated Press agencies.
“I think it’s a pretty unique moment in terms of how the players are connected to this issue. So, personally, I wouldn’t rule anything out at this point either,” warned Bielefeld.
Rodri gave an alert
Rodrigo Hernandez The Manchester City midfielder, who has just won the Ballon d’Or, said in September that the players were about to go on strike because of the number of games they had to play. Days later, he himself suffered a serious knee injury that would keep him out for the rest of the season.
Just now a report from the Belgian university KU Leuven, commissioned by FIFPro, studied health and safety standards in football. According to the union, the report found that governing bodies have shown “no commitment to defining holistic health and safety standards to meet the needs of players in a high-risk environment.”
Complaint to Brussels
Although major European clubs welcomed the tournament, the new Club World Cup prompted a formal complaint to the European Commission in Brussels by the players’ unions and the National League as to how it was added to the international calendar.
FIFPro announced that the report will be added to the evidence of its complaint. Despite objections, FIFA is continuing with the Club World Cup and its president Gianni Infantino He assured that the new tournament will mark “the beginning of a new era for football.” ___
Source: La Verdad
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