Warmer temperatures literally help with injury rehabilitations? If the injuries are higher it's because of fixture congestion not whatever bullshit study ESPN did
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"Today I feel injured" -Gianni Infantino, probably
Three points come to mind.
- Does the survey give the difference in injury severity between October and January for a non-world cup year by way of a control?
- How many of the injured players in January actually went to the World Cup?
- 88 recorded injuries is in no way a big enough sample size to draw any firm conclusions.
Memes aside, is there a comparison between this and nations that have a calendar year based season? Eg. Japan's season is from Jan- Dec so a regular summer world cup would be mid-season for them
A lot of their core player in world cup played in europe though, so this has to be taken into consideration
No shit, Sherlock
I feel like this is way too narrow a timeline to view it through. Let's not forget that the majority of footballers professionally were provided a rare period of extended rest during the WC period, since a majority of them obviously did not play the during the tournament.
If anything, my feeling is that injuries have largely increased since the 2 seasons were bundled together during the lockdown period. This is merely a result of that snowballing imo.
Summer in Europe ≈ Winter in Arab countries. But of course, the brown guys are the bad guys as usual
Geography does not check out. Both are in the northern hemisphere so have summer/winter at the same time
Talking about average temperatures
Because Qatar is well known for harsh winters..
Legalize steroids. Our roided up guy vs your roided up guy.
Southern hemisphere - am I a joke?
I was disgusted at Qatar being awarded the WC and even more disgusted at Saudi for 100s of reasons but a winter WC is not one of them.
Yes this whole winter vs summer thing feels a tad like "Hey its only the European football viewers who matter"
There was a lot wrong with Qatar's WC but this feels elitist
More number of games in a calender year leads to more injuries. Suprise.
Footballers need to protest this quickly before it reaches a similar boiling point as tennis. Players are protesting now, and Sinner recently abandoned a tournament after a 2:30 AM finish with his next game scheduled about half a day later. But it doesn't look like the ATP is going to budge.
But that was such a litty world cup no cap frfr *sheeessssh*
FIFA: cool story bro how about we do it again
No shit Sherlock
The suits dont care because people will watch regardless. Which means many fans dont really care, either.
And the clubs wont care until the money dries up
Love the headline, eurocentrism at it finest. Is the season who caused the injuries? Every World Cup in Winter is like this? South Africa, Brasil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay world cups had more injuries them? Or it was the time of the year not related at all with the season (of course it was).
Until the 90s the best South American players played in their countries, and the WC was always midseason for Brazilians, it's a problem only when it happens with europeans? Pathetic
More people should be saying this.
Who could have seen that coming?
All these replies pilling on Qatar. You do know that not all countries have European weather right. If you force a Summer world cup then you Automatically disqualify many countries from ever having the chance to host. If you want to shit on Qatar. fine but this isn't the thread to do it
oh no who could have ever seen this coming
When the players returned from the World Cup most of them played like shit and the rest of the season was very shaky at least in the Bundesliga. Really hated the whole ordeal honestly.
Doesn't matter, had cash.
I wonder how far away we are from FIFA saying that players can take steroids after being injured to improve their recovery times. They don't give a fuck about player welfare, so why not?
Surprise surprise
This will happen again when the Saudi's get the World Cup after 2030. The reason the 2030 world cup is spread over 3 countries is because it gives Asia the ability again to host the cup.
Don't think doing it in Uruguay/Argentina/Morocco/Spain was because they wanted to be cool or historic its cause the Saudi's bribed them.
Another WC during winter in Saudi Arabia, innit?
And we do it all again in 2034!!
FIFA 2034: I'll fuckin do it again
WOAH
No shit Sherlock
Did they only do research on fall leagues? If so, yeah we know but now they know how summer leagues feel.