Did they only do research on fall leagues? If so, yeah we know but now they know how summer leagues feel.
Warmer temperatures literally help with injury rehabilitations? If the injuries are higher it’s because of fixture congestion not whatever bullshit study ESPN did
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
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.
“Today I feel injured” -Gianni Infantino, probably
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.
FIFA 2034: I’ll fuckin do it again
Another WC during winter in Saudi Arabia, innit?
WOAH
No shit Sherlock
And we do it all again in 2034!!
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.
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
Because Qatar is well known for harsh winters…