HUGE CONTROVERSY: Man City’s Pep Guardiola comment has spark a war with UEFA and FIFA.

Pep Guardiola’s ability to keep his Manchester City team at the top of their game for so long is testament to the hard work he puts in every day. However, the Catalan doesn’t seem averse to the occasional bit of controversy, and what he’s supposedly now advocating might cause a fight with UEFA and FIFA.

Footballers at the best level are clearly playing more games than ever before, and the standard of football is steadily improving. The physical toll is clear, which is why only teams with deep enough squads are likely to be successful in the future.

Injuries to major players may also be attributed to the sheer number of matches played in any given season, as well as the fact that pre-season games are now being transformed into global exhibition competitions that require players to go to all corners of the globe.
When you factor in international matches, it’s no surprise that certain players struggle.

It has definitely reached a tipping point for Guardiola, who has proposed that the players follow the lead of the Spanish women’s team and go on strike in order to get the issue addressed seriously.

“There is only one way to change something; perhaps if all the players decide to say, ‘Stop,’ then you must change something.” Then FIFA and UEFA may react.

“A little bit,” he was cited by 90Min as stating.
“The show must go on in this business.” Continue without Pep, but without the players, the spectacle will end. But it is up to them to make the decision.

“Look at Spain’s women’s team; the players decided to change something, and they did so.” They changed something because the players determined that they needed to protect themselves and the future of the teams for future generations. That is the most significant legacy.

“The women’s teams in Spain did it, I don’t know if in men’s world football, they will do it.”

It’s an extremely antagonistic technique that’s unlikely to go over well in the halls of power.

Wearing a yellow ribbon in support of imprisoned activists and politicians who advocated for Catalan independence also enraged the powers that be, so Guardiola is clearly used to taking a stand when he believes he is in the right.

This time, he may have bitten off more than he can chew.