FIFPRO rejects 2025 Club World Cup with 32 teams

The international football union FIFPRO has once again expressed its rejection of the new Club World Cup. FIFA will start with 32 teams in 2025 to understand that this harms the health of players.

Following FIFA’s announcement that the tournament will take place between June 15 and July 13, FIFPRO said in a statement that this decision “is without the implementation of new safety measures for the players’ workload, it shows a lack of attention to the physical and mental health. health of participating footballers, as well as lack of respect for their private and family lives.”

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For the association, this means an expansion of the tournament: “It will shorten the rest and recovery time for these players at the end of the 2024-2025 season and further disrupt the labor markets in the national competitions, disrupting the balance between national and international competitions changes.”

“Footballers are left playing at the end of the eleven-month season with little prospect of adequate rest before the start of the next season,” FIFPRO said in its letter, noting that “the extreme mental and physical pressure at top level Football is the top concern of players in multi-club and national team competitions and leads to burnout, physical injury, mental health issues, reduced performance and risks to career longevity.”

He emphasizes that “once again” decisions have been made to expand the competitions “without the implementation of adequate protective measures, and without any voice of the players who, with their skills and achievements, are at the forefront of the popularity of the game and the monetization.”

It assures that its requests to initiate the process of establishing a working group on the principles of player welfare have not been ‘answered’. players over the future format of the competitions, but the voices of footballers are being ignored when it comes to their own health, wellbeing and performance.”

And he adds that it is “urgent”. Urges FIFA to “facilitate debates and discussions with all football stakeholders”. “introducing a core set of health and safety standards to support the welfare of professional footballers.”

(With information from EFE)

Source: La Neta Neta

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