Certainly, the Club World Cup is not unanimous. While Paris Saint-Germain is preparing to challenge Inter Miami as part of the 8th finals of the competition, many actors continue to criticize this new format. From Jürgen Klopp to Raphinha, more generally passing through the whole of the European press, the temporality of this tournament questions and many observers fear seeing players leached in the coming weeks and therefore an increased risk of injuries …
This Sunday morning in a press release published at 5:31 am, the National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP) has also taken. “The incongruity of the situation does not escape anyone, if not, obviously, to Gianni Infantino and his courtiers. “His” Club World Cup proves, until the absurd, that it is urgent to stop this game of massacre “first regretted the union of French professional players before pointing the finger at the danger of such a competition.
PSG will play its 62nd game of the year!
“He flouts the physical and mental health of the players for a few more dollars, while making fun, worse, while ignoring collective conventions – the charter, in France – which, everywhere, provide an incompressible period of three weeks of rest for footballers between two sports seasons”. Revolted, the UNFP notably took as an example Paris Saint-Germain to illustrate its words. Indeed, the European champions could play their 65th game of the year in the event of qualification in the final.
While four L1 clubs have already resumed training, PSG will come across the iron with Inter Miami this Sunday at 6 p.m. A timing also denounced by the union. “We do not see how or why Parisians would not benefit from the three weeks of total rest to which they are entitled and which they have, this year more than any other, the greatest need”adds the UNFP, also concerned about the consequences of this situation for the Blues, who will play two qualification matches at the 2026 World Cup on September 5 and 9 …
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