In the light of a sport, which is being loved by majority of persons in the world, football is the name of the sport. It has never survived with football players, however, the fitness of these major stake holders have also been one that has been on the minority table of conversations.
Meanwhile, the game can never bring beaming smiles and delight to the millions of football fans if the stake holders [players] are failing to stick with match fitness which has been of major concerns to these players.
These professional players at the beginning of 2024/2025 footballing campaign, players of respective top clubs have lamented bitterly with the more than enough games being made available by various football federations such as the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), Union of European Football Association (UEFA) and the respective tournaments organized by respective domestic football associations in the countries.
Further, key players of many clubs in Europe have sadly reported that, the injury situations of their players are very alarming and it is gradually growing into a menace which can cause mayhem and destruct individual players from outdooring and reaching their anticipated level of talents.
List of key players who are out completely for the entire season until next season:
(1)Gleison Bremer is out of the season due to an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury and has already undergone a successful surgery.
(2) Dani Carvajal sustained an Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury (ACL) during Real Madrid’s last game before the international against Villareal.
(3) Joan Martinez is also unable to have more game time as a young lad in order for he to develop into his full potential as a professional player due to an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury he sustained in a league game for his club, Real Madrid.
(4) Marc Bernal was also subbed off during a La-Liga game and after the medical team of FC Barcelona had identified the injury, he was diagnosed of a distorted Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury.
Additional, other players are on the sidelines of the game due to various forms injuries which are mainly, muscle and hamstring injuries.
It will not be in the wrong tangent, should football administrators, investors and football federations begin to initiate conversations which seeks to voice out remedies into the surge in respective injuries daunting and hunting professional players who are the major stake holders of the game of football.
In that vein, respective clubs should be permitted to recruit as much as forty to a maximum of professional players for a season. This would not only reduced the work load of the players, it will also widen the employment of many unemployed players who are failing to land a job of playing for professional clubs.
Plus, it also improves the revenue basket of the respective countries in which these players are plying their trade as players for professional clubs.
In the quest of football federations and associations wanting to increase the number of games tally, it is currently the right thing being implemented on a wrong foot. Much reasoning should be taken into consideration not on the development of game tables which does not take significance of good health of the major stake holders [players].
The world of football should never present the health of players in a ditch and poop out profits of money to administrators and federations. Then what happens to the investments made with finance, if the players avert any participation in the sport.
A glimpse of such situation is just displaying on the screens of football walls as professional players who initially derived joy in playing for their motherlands are now allegedly forging all forms of injury situations or illness during the international games in order for them to catch enough rest just to feature with full match fitness for their clubs. A example is, the captain of the Ghana black-stars, Thomas Partey was been announced by his club, Arsenal as one of the players who had gained a call-up by their nation yet, he has suddenly refuted to join the national team on the basis that, he is not feeling well.