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Jonas Baer-Hoffmann makes serious allegations of the Uefa
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The football players' union FIFPro has criticized Uefa for its handling of the health of the players. »Football should have taken urgent action five years ago, instead it continues contradicting itself. If the weaknesses are known, the rules are changed, but the decisive point is not the question of the health of the players, it amounts to moral bankruptcy, ”said FIFPro general secretary Jonas Baer-Hoffmann of the“ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ”.
Baer-Hoffmann also referred to the way in which the Dane Christian Eriksen's collapse at the European Football Championship was dealt with.
"The decision-making process after traumatic incidents must be thoroughly checked and changed." The emotional situation of the players must be the decisive criterion, said Baer-Hoffmann, but leaving them responsible for the decision under the shock or trauma is not responsible.
Baer-Hoffmann also criticizes the non-stop playing stress and the handling of possible head injuries.
He criticized the unwillingness of football to adequately deal with the problem.
The FIFPro complained that the international rules do not allow temporary player changes for investigations.
"In almost all other sports there are better solutions than in football," said Baer-Hoffmann.
He referred to the practice in the NFL football league, in which team doctors are accompanied by a second, independent doctor, whose judgment is ultimately decisive because a team doctor who ignores the diagnosis of the neutral doctor makes himself vulnerable in questions of liability .
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