Did they only do research on fall leagues? If so, yeah we know but now they know how summer leagues feel.
“Today I feel injured” -Gianni Infantino, probably
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.
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
Another WC during winter in Saudi Arabia, innit?
And we do it all again in 2034!!
FIFA 2034: I’ll fuckin do it again
WOAH
No shit Sherlock
Warmer temperatures literally help with injury rehabilitations? If the injuries are higher it’s because of fixture congestion not whatever bullshit study ESPN did
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.
Summer in Europe ≈ Winter in Arab countries. But of course, the brown guys are the bad guys as usual
Geography does not check out. Both are in the northern hemisphere so have summer/winter at the same time
Talking about average temperatures
Because Qatar is well known for harsh winters…
Legalize steroids. Our roided up guy vs your roided up guy.