Articulate referring to the load on gamers has grown in most up-to-date years, significantly because the sequence of fixtures has been increasing.
AFP
20 September, 2024, 04:05 pm
Final modified: 20 September, 2024, 04:06 pm
Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany on Friday called for an annual cap on the sequence of games a player can play to pickle up workload.
This year’s Champions League adds fixtures while FIFA’s expanded 32-team Membership World Cup will happen this summer season, a time when gamers would customarily bask in a atomize from games.
High clubs with European and home cup commitments may maybe possibly well play as much as 75 games this season.
At a press conference earlier than Saturday’s time out to Werder Bremen, Kompany acknowledged that “it became once already a theme at some level of my (playing) profession” and labelled it “a obligatory matter”.
“To play 75, 80 games, it gets to a diploma where or no longer it isn’t any longer sensible anymore,” he acknowledged.
“The resolution I’ve always obligatory is to connect a cap on the quantity of games a player can play as an particular particular person. Build aside a cap, attach a compulsory length of holidays (for gamers).”
Rodri, the most up-to-date midfield general of Manchester City where Kompany spent a protracted time as a player, acknowledged on Tuesday the “general notion of the gamers” became once that “we’re end to a strike”.
“If it keeps going this technique, there shall be a time when there may maybe be no varied option,” the Spaniard added.
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson and Proper Madrid goalie Thibaut Courtois bask in made identical statements in most up-to-date days.
Kompany has previously spoken out on the difficulty and became once a member of the FIFPro gamers union at some level of his time on the pitch, where he captained Manchester City and the Belgian national team.
The 38-year-aged acknowledged the cap may maybe possibly well be “the most efficient of each worlds” because it may maybe possibly possibly maybe well “rob away the stress on the clubs”.
He additionally acknowledged the model may maybe possibly also simply aloof “always encompass exceptions for finals — we are able to no longer rob that a long way from gamers”.
Kompany promised squad rotations in the upcoming weeks as Bayern manages midweek soccer commitments.
“We’re talking a pair of crowded schedule and stress on the gamers. Our squad isn’t any longer a luxurious, we would favor it to enact our targets.”
The coach acknowledged a resolution on whether or no longer captain and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer may maybe possibly well be fit to face Bremen “may maybe possibly well be made after coaching”.
The goalie became once subbed off at half of-time in Tuesday’s 9-2 procure over Dinamo Zagreb after falling on his abet.
Kompany acknowledged Bayern “did no longer are looking to rob any useless dangers”, but added that “it appears correct (for Neuer)”.
