De Bruyne slams FIFA and UEFA for prioritizing money over players’ health, creating non-stop tournament schedule
Manchester City midfielder and Belgium captain Kevin De Bruyne has criticised football’s two governing bodies, FIFA and UEFA, for their decision to increase the number of matches played in order to boost revenue from last season. He said the problem of increased fixtures at club and international level may not have affected the ทางเข้า ufabet https://ufabet999.app clubs this year but will certainly be next year. The full picture should be clearer after next year’s Club World Cup. As the new Premier League season starts just three weeks after the Club World Cup. Meaning we will have just three weeks to rest and prepare for the new season, which could mean 80 games
De Bruyne continued that the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) and many footballers’ associations are trying to find a solution to this problem. But the issue is that both FIFA and UEFA just keep adding more matches, which worries many people and they still can’t find a solution to the problem. It seems that money is louder than the players now.
Earlier in July, the Professional Footballers’ Union (FIFPro) submitted a letter of protest to the European Union (EU) against FIFA’s schedule expansion, and FIFPro released a statement last week saying that some players have very little rest, around 12 percent of a year, because the responsible body does not prioritize the health of the players, and called for a cap on the number of matches or rest days for each player to be set so as not to harm the health of the players.