Gerard Piqué, former FC Barcelona defender converted to sports events, ignites UEFA and FIFA on the subject of overloaded calendars and proposes reducing the number of teams in the championships.
Gerard Piqué in support of his former peers. The former FC Barcelona player understands the fed up of several players in current football with overloaded schedules, as he explained during his speech at the Summit, on the occasion of Leaders Week in London. It encourages UEFA and FIFA to give in to the lure of profit by organizing new competitions (new formats of the Champions League and the Club World Cup).
“The competitions should take place with only 16 clubs”
“There are too many matches and now we see that the players are shouting: ‘we are injured’. There are matches every three days and we don’t have time to rest in the summer.”
The former Spanish international, converted to sports events with the Davis Cup and the Kings League, proposes reducing the number of teams in the championships. “I think the number of matches should be reduced. We should call all the leagues and tell them that instead of 20 teams, the competitions should take place with only 16 clubs,” he suggests.
He continues by attacking UEFA and Fifa. “I would ask those at UEFA: why are you creating this Nations League, which is a difficult competition to follow? And I would say to FIFA to now do this FIFA Club World Cup that they created .I understand that they want to generate more revenue, but for the sake of football I think it could be much better to have fewer matches, but more premium and more exclusive experiences It would be easier to. entertain the public and the players would have fewer matches.”
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