We could act surprised, talk about simple unfortunate coincidences, but the reality is that the cascade of injuries which has hit the football world in recent days, after the successive serious injuries to Camavinga and Zaire-Emery in France, Vinicius (Brazil)Gavi (Spain), Rasfhord (England), Onana (Cameroon), Haaland (Norway), ter Stegen (Netherlands), Bastoni, McKennie (Italy) can only be a coincidence.
While coaches, players’ unions, and now the players themselves, continue to warn of the risks to their physical and mental health of overloaded schedules, this start of the international break, the last of the year, n t was a sad reflection of the concerns repeated many times by FIFPRO, whose studies clearly show the correlation between the number of ever-increasing matches and the increase in injuries.
A new alert for authorities that turn a deaf ear
Certainly, if the neo-tricolor Warren Zaire-Emery had not crossed paths with the butcher of Gibralatar, Saturday evening, near the Allianz Riviera in Nice, and if Dembélé had not slipped during training and fell again on Camavinga’s leg at Clairefontaine a few days earlier, the Blues, PSG and Real Madrid would not have to suffer from the absence of these two players.
But the number of injuries across the planet after just one meeting this weekend should provide even more grist for the whistleblowers’ mills. The problem, always the same, is that the authorities hardly seem to care.