Professional footballers should beryllium allowed astatine slightest a four-week off-season break, positive a minimum four-week retraining play earlier a instrumentality to competition, according to a caller report.
The study, released connected Thursday by planetary players' national Fifpro, led to 70 aesculapian and show experts agreeing connected 12 safeguards they privation to present successful a bid to support players from exhaustion and excessive workload.
Fifpro said it represents the astir extended adept statement to day connected safeguards against excessive workload successful nonrecreational football.
More than 75% statement was required among participants to found each recommendation.
Among the recommendations are:
a four-week off-season break
mandatory mid-season breaks
a minimum four-week retraining play earlier a instrumentality to competitory action
and mandatory information of the question load connected players.
"This survey presents information standards based connected the considered and autarkic opinions of aesculapian and show experts moving successful nonrecreational shot who recognize the intelligence and carnal strain placed connected players," Professor Doctor Vincent Gouttebarge, Fifpro aesculapian director, said.
"If we tin each hold that wellness comes first, past we should instrumentality steps to instrumentality these safeguards."
The merchandise of the study comes conscionable days earlier the opening crippled of the Fifa Club World Cup successful the United States.
Premier League sides Manchester City and Chelsea are some progressive successful the tournament, which concludes connected 13 July.
Should either scope the final, players volition person a spread of conscionable 5 weeks earlier the Premier League play begins connected 15 August.
Chelsea's archetypal crippled of the Club World Cup takes spot connected 16 June, conscionable 19 days aft their Conference League last triumph implicit Real Betis.
In September, a week anterior to suffering an ACL injury, City midfielder Rodri said players were adjacent to going connected strike due to the fact that of the summation successful games, portion team-mate Manuel Akanji suggested helium would person to discontinue astatine 30-years-old arsenic a effect of the deficiency of breaks successful the calendar.
In October, Fifpro filed a ineligible ailment with the European Commission implicit what it said was Fifa's "abuse of dominance," which was specifically related to the Club World Cup.
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