Football's relentless and ever-expanding schedule is now placing impossible physical burdens on fatigued, exhausted young men
As trudged off the pitch at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis on Tuesday evening, a third consecutive appearance cut short by injury, the mind drifted back to something Mikel Arteta said when concerns were first raised about the forward’s workload. It was last October and Saka, in his 16th appearance in the two and a half months since that season began, had just limped off in the closing stages of a group match at home to PSV Eindhoven.
Pro, the global players’ union, have proposed a limit of 55 competitive matches for players each season — spanning club and international football — warning that an ever more congested schedule for elite-level footballers “puts not only their health and therefore career prospects at risk but threatens to diminish their peak sporting performance and, as a result, the quality of competitions”.
Pro released a report on Wednesday saying that, over a 12-month period from September 15 last year, ’s Portugal international midfielder had made 72 appearances for club and country, more than any player in world football. Fernandes during Manchester United’s game with Galatasaray this week Then came forward , Manchester City midfielder , forward and Real Madrid midfielders and and Manchester City midfielder , Palmeiras defender Gustavo Gomez and Manchester United forward .
Pro report outlined how players such as , and had played far more at younger ages than those of equivalent profile in previous generations. One statistic was that, by his 20th birthday in June, Bellingham had played 30 per cent more competitive minutes than Wayne Rooney did. And that was Rooney, who, for all his achievements with Manchester United and England, could be not said to have stayed at the peak of his powers far beyond his mid-twenties.
Pro’s report, validated by various experts in sports-science and performance analysis, recommends a minimum of 28 days’ rest between seasons, ideally up to 42, as well as frequent breaks of five days between matches. At the highest level, football’s schedule simply doesn’t allow that.
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