Anwar Ibrahim (Cairo)
French football development director Arsene Wenger is fighting with all his might to convince his critics and attackers with his proposal to hold the World Cup every two years instead of four years.
And he came out again on one of the sports programs of the “Radio Monte Carlo Sport” network, with statements defending his project, stressing that it will not be an additional burden on the players, as some portray, but that the number of matches will decrease due to the combination of the qualifiers for the continental championships and the World Cup qualifiers.
Wenger, 71, continued to talk about two models that are still alive, to make it clear that many matches do not kill players, as some claim, and said: Look at Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, they are still playing and shining for more than 15 years.
He added: “There are wrong ideas that are repeated a lot without the support of science or truth, and when I was coach of Arsenal, my team played against Ronaldo in 2004, and here he is still playing so far, and is approaching 70 games every year, and for this we must not live with the wrong idea that She says that playing football kills players.
He added: “During my career as a coach, I had problems with players who did not play, not
Those who play, and the big stars always want to play the big matches, and what bothers them and makes them “bored and bored” is playing “small matches”.
Wenger, who previously coached French Monaco before his long English adventure with the “Gunners”, admitted, saying: “It is certain that traveling a lot and long trips is what harms the players the most, and that is why this problem will be solved by reducing the duration of the qualifiers, and this benefits the clubs and players alike.”
Wenger stressed that holding the tournament every two years will not affect the tournament’s luster, value and importance, as some claim.
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