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https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5514538/2024/05/27/football-calendar-congestion-injuries/
“Now players are managing (their effort in) games. I’ve had them tell me this. They don’t play 100 per cent, they try and play maybe 60 or 70 per cent and manage. Yet the fans pay full price. It would be like me paying to watch Beyonce but I don’t get to see her full show.
Bruno Fernandes, the Manchester United captain, is another example of the sustained pressure to play.
Since the start of the 2020-21 season, he has made 256 appearances for the club and his country, Portugal. Even including three summer breaks, that amounts to Fernandez featuring in a game every 5.2 days across the four campaigns.
The modern era threatens to drain the batteries of emerging talent over time. FIFPro’s numbers, detailed in their Workload Report for 2022-23, say Jude Bellingham had played 14,445 minutes of senior football before his 20th birthday. Wayne Rooney, another English prodigy from an earlier era, clocked only 10,989. Kylian Mbappe, meanwhile, is said to have played 37 per cent more minutes than fellow France striker Thierry Henry did at the same age.
Ever since Covid and the back log of games because of lockdowns, it seems that there are games every week, and when the season ends there is backlog of international football.
This year since he end of the premier league we will have copa de America, Euros, then the Olympics before the premier league starts again.
United had far to many injuries last year, and here we are again getting players back from injury and off they head to international breaks.
“Now players are managing (their effort in) games. I’ve had them tell me this. They don’t play 100 per cent, they try and play maybe 60 or 70 per cent and manage. Yet the fans pay full price. It would be like me paying to watch Beyonce but I don’t get to see her full show.
Bruno Fernandes, the Manchester United captain, is another example of the sustained pressure to play.
Since the start of the 2020-21 season, he has made 256 appearances for the club and his country, Portugal. Even including three summer breaks, that amounts to Fernandez featuring in a game every 5.2 days across the four campaigns.
The modern era threatens to drain the batteries of emerging talent over time. FIFPro’s numbers, detailed in their Workload Report for 2022-23, say Jude Bellingham had played 14,445 minutes of senior football before his 20th birthday. Wayne Rooney, another English prodigy from an earlier era, clocked only 10,989. Kylian Mbappe, meanwhile, is said to have played 37 per cent more minutes than fellow France striker Thierry Henry did at the same age.
Ever since Covid and the back log of games because of lockdowns, it seems that there are games every week, and when the season ends there is backlog of international football.
This year since he end of the premier league we will have copa de America, Euros, then the Olympics before the premier league starts again.
United had far to many injuries last year, and here we are again getting players back from injury and off they head to international breaks.