Bayern Munich coach, Vincent Kompany, and his Bayer Leverkusen counterpart, Xabi Alonso, on Friday, joined the growing chorus calling for action on player workload, amid talks of strikes.
Kompany said a cap should be introduced on the amount of games a player can play each year, while Alonso said players must have greater involvement in decisions about the fixture calendar.
Concern about the load on players has grown in recent years, particularly as the number of fixtures has been increasing.
This year’s Champions League adds fixtures while FIFA’s expanded 32-team Club World Cup will take place this summer, a time when players would normally have a break from games.
Top clubs with European and domestic cup commitments could play up to 75 games this season.
At a press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Werder Bremen, Kompany said that “it was already a theme during my (playing) career” and labelled it “a very important…