Football’s top leagues and players’ unions have joined forces today to tell FIFA: “We will not play in your Club World Cup. You are killing football.”
The boycott threats have been spearheaded by Premier League chairman Richard Masters, PFA chairman Maheta Molango and La Liga chief executive Javier Tebas.
With Manchester City and Chelsea favourites to win, they will vow to take legal action unless the 32-team tournament is revised. united states of america Next summerwill be rescheduled.
Harry Kane’s Bayern Munich and Jude Bellingham’s Real Madrid are also due to take part in the four-week tournament, which has a prize pool of more than £600 million.
FIFA officials have dismissed previous concerns about player welfare.
But Molango told SunSport: “Football is killing its own product.”
“The people who run the game need to listen.
“If they don’t do that then we as a union have a responsibility to take action against the players and legal action is available. Next Step.
“The governing body had multiple opportunities to engage in meaningful discussions with us on this matter but failed to do so.”
“The current workload of players is unsustainable.
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“People are starting to realise that the number of games being crammed into the fixture list just doesn’t fit.”
The International Federation of Professional Footballers (FifPro) and the PFA believe this schedule leaves them with no option but to allow star players to return to action without the minimum three-week break required by all professional contracts.
Unless there is a change of policy, lawyers have been asked to prepare legal documents for FIFA.
Masters is president of the World League Association, which represents all of soccer’s major leagues.
He is due to attend FifPro and the PFA’s player loading conference in London today, along with Tebas and Molango.
“This is a problem for the whole of football,” Molango added.
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