by Top soccer players are afraid of playing against too many games for fear of the effects that it could have on their career, said the Secretary General of the Global Players’ Union Fifpro.
Alex Phillips spoke after FIFPRO in Amsterdam held a meeting with 58 national players unions from all over the world, for concerns about the way the global management committee of Sport FIFA manages global football.
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The meeting took place less than two weeks after the end of the first 32-team club world championship in the United States.
“I spoke to some of the top stars in front of the World Cup and they said they had no break for ‘X’ time,” said Phillips.
“One of them even said: ‘I will only rest when I am hurt.
“Then you see that some of the same players have to record social media videos two weeks later in which the Club World Championship is great because their employers tell them that they should do it.
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“You have this contradictory situation in which the players cannot speak. They are in an insidious position. You can speak, but it could have consequences.”
FIFPRO said that FIFA’s latest focus on the World Cup in the USA was an example of ignoring many more important topics with which players around the world are confronted with.
“It is unacceptable for an organization that claims the global leadership to arrange for the basic needs of the players,” said FIFPRO in an explanation, especially in the “overloaded” match calendar, warmth in the World Cup and a “persistent disregard for the social rights of the players”.
FIFPRO Europe filed a complaint with the European Commission last year, in which FIFA misused its position in terms of dealing with the international game calendar.
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The summit organized by the Union on Friday after he was left out of a meeting of FIFA on the eve of the youngest Club World Cup final.
Sergio Marchi, the Argentine President of FIFPRO, struck FIFA’s leadership this week and accused him of having conducted an “autocracy” in an interview with the athlete.
FIFA struck back in FIFPRO on Friday when they “with legitimate bodies that put the well -being of the player in the first place,” and said that she tried unsuccessfully to take part in the union in New York on July 12th.
“The FIFA is extremely disappointed with the increasingly divorce and contradictory tone, which was assumed by FIFPro leadership,” said the organization based in Zurich.
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“This approach clearly shows that FIFPRO, instead of participating in a constructive dialogue, has to pursue a path of public confrontation”, which aims to “preserve their own personal positions and interests”.
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