Launched for the first time this summer in the United States, the Club World Cup is definitely not unanimous. If for clubs it turns out to be juicy from an economic point of view, with big gains at the key, the competition is added to an already overloaded calendar. This necessarily worries the union of French professional players, who decided to draw the alarm.
In a statement published this Sunday, the UNFP castigated the organization of this Club World Cup, which induces additional matches for players, and therefore an increased risk of injuries. The National Union of Professional Footballers even goes so far as to claim the end of this ” massacre ».
“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 », Can we read in the Missive of UNFP.
World of clubs, “it is urgent to stop this game of massacre”
And to add: “ 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 sporting seasons. »»
The union then took the example of PSG, the only tricolor club engaged in the World Cup and which played its 62e Match of the season this Sunday against Inter Miami. “” 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 », Mistored the UNFP. The message has passed. Will it be heard? Nothing is less certain.
