Why China can tie brazil the 0-0 tie is proof that fifa needs to step in and LIMIT THE NUMBER OF FRIENDLY MATCHES. does a 0-0 tie mean that china is as good as brazil? does it mean that china can win the next world cup? NO! the players were tired. Players like zidane among others are complaining about playing 90+ games a year. We saw what happened at the world cup. Many stars could play because they got injured not long before the cup. Why? because they were overplayed. limit the number of national team games to 16, no more than 2 per month. the quality is going down. It doesnt mean that china all of the sudden is as good as brazil of course not.
Maybe you should be bitching at the Brazialian Federation for being money grubbers and trying to line their coffers with appearance fee dosh...not FIFA, who could probably really care less if you organize a friendly on the pre approved dates.
im not saying that brazil is wrong for having the friendly against china. If you are offered that kind of money you would be dumb not to accept it. all i am saying is for fifa to limit national team matches to 16 a year, with a limit of no more than 2 per month. so you get a match for every month of the year, and in 2 months of the year you get 2.
16 is more than are already played in most cases! What needs to be done is better scheduling on the part of leagues within a confederation to allow national teams to have meaningful friendlies instead of ones where everyone gets together less than 24 hours before the game.
That wouldn't help Brasil, as most of their players are with European clubs. Perhaps FIFA could mandate a player's release for NT matches in cases where the league is not part of the player's confederation. Or they could schedule on a worldwide basis, allowing time for transoceanic flight and training. I don't see this happening, tho- the bloated spectre of club ball will take precedence. Sad, but true. 3 years and 3 months until the next World Cup. Until then, it's all just a cash circus. I don't think FIFA ought to be in the business of limiting NT matches, especially when they've alloted pre-approved dates for friendlies. If a NT decides to use them all, that's their issue.
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