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Huge rant from Toni Kroos: "The players are the puppets of Fifa and Uefa"

2020-11-11T18:11:38.491Z


The German international Real Madrid is worried about the accumulation of matches and denounces the "inventions" of international bodies.


Thomas Tuchel, Thiago Silva, Jurgen Klopp ... Many voices are raised to warn the authorities and sound the alarm about the hellish pace of the moment.

In essence, there are too many matches and the health of footballers is at risk.

Moreover, the players actually fall like flies in the four corners of Europe, and not only those who have happily passed their thirties or the regulars in the infirmary.

The sequence of matches is indigestible for the best, between club competitions and national selections.

Ten more matches on the menu for French clubs engaged in the European Cup

And the authorities are pointed out by Toni Kroos in his podcast this Wednesday, while the European selections are preparing once again to play three matches before the marathon at the end of the year, including the last three days in the League of champions and Europa League.

For example, French clubs will play ten more matches in all competitions between now and the confectioners' truce!

“We, the players, are just puppets in all these new things invented by Fifa and Uefa.

Nobody consults us, “laments the midfielder of Real and the German team.

In the sights of the 2014 world champion, the League of Nations, a competition in which the players "would not participate" if they were asked for their opinion, no more than a "Spanish Supercup relocated to Saudi Arabia (like this was the case in early 2020, editor's note), or a Club World Cup with 20 or more teams (24 in 2021, editor's note) ”.

The objective of these competitions?

"Pump as much money as possible" without worrying about the health of footballers, as the former Bayern Munich hammer says.

Note that Kroos considers "very, very interesting from a sporting point of view" the idea of ​​a European Superleague, defended by a number of big European clubs, and recently dubbed by the former management of Barça and Josep Maria Bartomeu, emphasizing however, that the project carries the risk of widening a little more the gap between the European elite and the other clubs.

"It's good to leave certain things as they are, when they work," added Toni Kroos, calling the Champions League, Euro or even the World Cup "super products".

Passed by Hansa Rostock, Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, Toni Kroos, 30, is under contract until 2023 at Real Madrid.

He celebrated his 100th selection (17 goals) with the Nationalmannschaft on October 13, in Cologne, on the occasion of the draw against Switzerland (3-3), in the League of Nations.

Germany must face the Czech Republic this Wednesday evening (8:45 p.m.), in a friendly, before two meetings of the League of Nations.

(with AFP)   

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