It is not easy to take out the direction according to the unbelievably silent Swedish effort in Pristina. The only player who offered Swedish supporters a streak of vain hope was Alexander Isak, who was substituted in the 72nd minute of the match. The question was hanging in the air already at halftime: Why didn’t he get more playing time?
We probably never know what instructions Liverpool’s prestige acquisition brought with us to the national team collection. It was just over twenty minutes of play in a match that Sweden had already lost – morally, philosophically and by all means sporting.
When Isaac finally talked after the match, he really said nothing. He “was game -sucking” but “it’s hard to know exactly how many minutes are right”. Had Liverpool possibly put in a veto against more than twenty minutes of play?
– Not what I know. It is clear that clubs and national teams have contact and communication, but it is between them.
More interesting is that Listen to what Alexander Isak didn’t say. For example: “After an evaluation with the national team’s medical staff, it was clear that the body does not last for more than twenty minutes of play.”
Catalan sports sites started a campaign this week for Brazil’s federation captain Carlo Ancelotti to let Barcelona player Raphinha Vila in Wednesday night’s away game against Bolivia. The brasses are already ready for the World Cup next summer and the match is played at over 4,000 meters altitude, which significantly increases the risk of injury. Raphinha finally played half an hour when Brazil lost in Bolivia.
The fucking started already when Ancelotti took out Raphinha in the squad while letting Real Madrid’s brass Vinícius, Rodrygo, Militão and Endrick stay home. Carlo Ancelotti is, as you know, Real Madrid’s former coach and it is enough for the conspiracy theories in Catalonia to flow: He wants to destroy Barça!
Even more bad blood Has flown between Paris Saint-Germain and France’s national team captain Didier Deschamps this week. After the two key players Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré Doué injured themselves in the World Cup qualifier against Ukraine this weekend, PSG published an open letter to the French Football Association. You call for a “new, more transparent medical protocol between club and national team” which should be “built on collaboration”.
PSG writes that the national team has been provided with information about the physical status of both players and regrets that the national team’s medical team “has not taken it into consideration”.
Behind these passively aggressive formulations, one can assume that a number of conversations in a harder tone have taken place. Both Dembélé and Doué now miss PSG’s Champions League premiere next week and are expected to be away for six and four weeks respectively.
Didier Deschamps defended himself this week with a replica that did not miss a cocky cape.
– We took the matter seriously by asking the players how they felt before each training.
The list of clubs like Endure themselves over players used in international matches, although they are not one hundred percent injury -free will not be shorter.
During the seasons 22/23 and 23/24, the injury rate in the Premier League rose by 11 and 22 percent respectively. Following the national team break in October last year, La Liga counted 200 registered injuries from the season start, more than any other year.
Large football clubs have always to some extent benefited from their players shining on the international national team scene. Nothing beats a successful World Cup tournament for the entire eyes of the world from public relations. Synergy effect, I think it’s called financial.
For a football player, nothing is nicer than playing with the national team. So it always sounded.
But national team games also involve a risk of football bodies that are burdened with more and more club football and thus a risk of the breathtaking capital that is now invested in the bodies.
The week showed a series of screen strokes in the conflict between national teams and clubs. It will not be delayed before it blows up to full war.
