• 2 months ago
Managers in Europe react to Rodri saying players could go on strike due to the increasing fixture congestion
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00:00You think it will get to a point where after playing so many games or being asked to play so many games that the players will
00:06Say I don't want to be part of this and they'll actually end up like going on strike or not refusing to play
00:12It's such, you know, such a big kind of calendar
00:15Yeah, I think we're close to that
00:23If something's going to change always have must come from the place that business
00:29Can be without managers can be without sporting directors can be without media can be without
00:37Owners, but without the players
00:40Can not be played
00:42The trainers and the players will not change the calendar
00:52What is important is to reflect on this
00:56The important organism, the league, the UEFA, the FIFA, are thinking that
01:03The players, especially the players, because the coaches
01:08The players are getting tired
01:09It's not just the load for the players, but it's also the travels and you know these guys some of these guys they go from
01:16from playing in the Champions League to playing a national team game in Korea or something and I'm back and
01:22If you do that for 70, 75, 80 games, it's a point where it's not realistic anymore
01:28So to this point I can only support the
01:31The feeling of the players.
01:33There is a moment when the players feel that there are too many games
01:39So the calendar is very intense and they have to
01:44They need to be heard. They need to participate in these decisions because we want good football
01:50So it's a big reflection and a
01:54Advice
01:57He is totally right to have this opinion
02:00This is not going to happen
02:02It's not going to happen, not here, not them, because at the end
02:08Since they were very young, they train and they work and the dream was to be a football player
02:13They are not going to say, no, I don't want to play. This is not going to happen ever
02:19It can happen something different, but all the players, at the end, they want to play the games
02:24If you give players enough time to recover between seasons and that gives them a better opportunity to
02:30You know to play the games that seem to be in the schedule now
02:33But it seems like that the windows of recovery for players are getting smaller and smaller and I definitely think that's an issue

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