The number of games played every year is growing and the frustration of players is getting bigger. Injuries have always been a common association with football, but the increased number of games also led to some serious injuries, especially in recent times. Apart from that, the level of football is decreasing, since the players are tired and some coaches don‘t rotate the players as they should. What will happen in the future? We will soon find out, as the players are increasingly talking about some sort of response to the UEFA and FIFA game calendar, while there are some of them who like the current situation and look like party-breakers.Has Rodri started an avalanche? Koundé and Orban support the strikeWhen Rodri first started talking about a possible players‘ strike (and suffered a season-ending injury soon after that), other footballers followed, like Barcelona‘s Jules Koundé and RB Leipzig’s Willi Orban. Now another one came forward. Former Manchester City defender Aymeric Laporte, who now plays with Cristiano Ronaldo in Al-Nassr confirmed that the players are talking about this new, heavy footballing schedule and are mentioning strike.Five serious injuries in just two weeks”In fact it is the only solution we see to stop this. Every year it gets worse and worse so it is true that it is a little complicated for the players. There we saw, I do not know if you followed but I imagine that yes, many Spanish players did not come because of physical problems. The truth is yes, we talk about it a lot, more and more. It is talked about a lot and in fact we already had a conversation between us during this gathering. It is true that the pace is too high, there are far too many matches. I think that football is designed more for the financial aspect than for the care of the players. We should think a little about the players, especially those who think about business and want to see the great players on the pitch. The great players want to play every match, even the little ones they want to play. It’s true that in the end that makes 70 or 80 matches in the year which is untenable” he explained.Luis Figo: ‘Less games means less money’A couple of hundred kilometers away, in Germany, Die Mannschaft is preparing for its game with Bosnia-Herzegovina and captain Joshua Kimmich was asked almost the same question. But his answer was quite opposite than Laporte‘s.“I’m making myself a bit unpopular, perhaps partly because I’m someone who always likes to play, who likes to play a lot of games. I’m now also looking forward to the Nations League games. In football, there will always be injuries. The squads are also getting a bit bigger. You can also change teams more often. I prefer an ‘English week’ to a normal week. It’s more fun to be on the pitch. I don’t know if you get injured less if you play fewer games. Many serious injuries are often accidents. Muscular injuries are certainly also related to high levels of strain” said the DFB captain on Tuesday.##NAJAVA_MECA_8401481##
