Will Players Strike? - Managers react - video Dailymotion

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