Winter WC led to more severe injuries - study
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The mid-season World Cup in Qatar last year led to players from Europe's top five leagues spending an average of eight days longer on the sidelines due to injury in the months after the tournament, a study has revealed.
  • Krypterr123@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Did they only do research on fall leagues? If so, yeah we know but now they know how summer leagues feel.

  • sport_____@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Southern hemisphere - am I a joke?

    I was disgusted at Qatar being awarded the WC and even more disgusted at Saudi for 100s of reasons but a winter WC is not one of them.

    • Various_Search_9096@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yes this whole winter vs summer thing feels a tad like “Hey its only the European football viewers who matter”

      There was a lot wrong with Qatar’s WC but this feels elitist

  • Banged_by_bumrah@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Warmer temperatures literally help with injury rehabilitations? If the injuries are higher it’s because of fixture congestion not whatever bullshit study ESPN did

  • Chileinsg@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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

    • MayweatherSr@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      A lot of their core player in world cup played in europe though, so this has to be taken into consideration

  • SecureChampionship10@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Three points come to mind.

    1. Does the survey give the difference in injury severity between October and January for a non-world cup year by way of a control?
    2. How many of the injured players in January actually went to the World Cup?
    3. 88 recorded injuries is in no way a big enough sample size to draw any firm conclusions.
  • spicynirvana38@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    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.

    • El_grandepadre@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Footballers need to protest this quickly before it reaches a similar boiling point as tennis. Players are protesting now, and Sinner recently abandoned a tournament after a 2:30 AM finish with his next game scheduled about half a day later. But it doesn’t look like the ATP is going to budge.