Bunballersbond accuses FIFA of turning a ‘blind eye for basic needs of players’

Top football players are afraid to speak out against playing too many matches for fear of the impact it could have on their career, said the General Secretary of Global Players’ Union FIFPRO on Friday.

After FIFPRO, Alex Phillips spoke with a meeting in Amsterdam with 58 national players’ unions from all over the world to discuss concern about the way in which the world of sport, FIFA, manages worldwide football.

The meeting arrived less than two weeks after the end of the first 32-team Club World Cup in the United States, a tournament was praised as a huge success by FIFA president Gianni Infantino, but criticized by FIFPRO for the requirements it has already faced with a busy schedule.

«Before the club World Cup I spoke with some of the top stars and they said they didn’t have peace for ‘x’ time,» said Phillips.

«One of them even said:» I will only rest if I get injured «. Others were dismissal, actually and cynically talking about.

«Then you see some of the same players who have to record two weeks later to record videos on social media and say,» We think the club World Cup is great «, because their employers tell them that they have to do it.

«You have this conflicting situation in which players cannot speak. They are in a necessary position. They can speak, but it can have consequences.»

FIFPRO said that the recent focus of FIFA at the club’s World Cup in the United States was an example of the body that ignored many more important issues that players all over the world are confronted.

«It is unacceptable for an organization that claims that global leadership is turning a blind eye for the basic needs of the players,» said FIFPRO in a statement, in particular quoting the «overloaded» competition calendar, heat deliverance to the club world cup and «continuous contempt for the social rights of players».

FIFPRO Europe filed a complaint with the European Commission last year and accused the FIFA of abusing its position with regard to the treatment of the international competition calendar.

The top organized by the Union came on Friday after it was omitted from a meeting held by FIFA on the eve of the recent final of the World Cup club.

Sergio Marchi, the Argentinian president of FIFPRO, took the lead of FIFA Infantino this week and accused him of running an «autocracy» in an interview with Athletics.

FIFA hit FIFPRO in a statement on Friday, because the Public Prosecution Service cried dialogue «with legitimate bodies that first placed the player’s well -being» and said that it had tried in vain to get the trade union on July 12 to attend the meeting in New York.

«FIFA is extremely disappointed by the more and more division and conflicting tone assumed by FIFPRO leadership,» said the organization established in Zurich.

«This approach clearly shows that FIFPRO instead of entering into a constructive dialogue has chosen to pursue a path of public confrontation», which aims to «retain their own personal positions and interests.»