La Liga | Yamal was selected for the Spanish team and withdrew, and the conflict between European national teams and clubs deepened

Qilu Evening News·Qilu One Point reporter Yin Chengjun

The next week will be international match day. Outstanding international players who play football in the top European leagues will return to the national team to participate in the World Cup qualifiers or various warm-up matches. Recently, Spanish coach Dela Fuente once again ordered his troops to welcome two World Cup European qualifiers against Georgia and Bulgaria. As the world's best right winger, Yamal was naturally selected. But shortly after being selected, the Spanish Football Association announced that Yamal was injured and would withdraw from the national team competition.

Is Yamal injured? Fans who often watch La Liga recently know that Yamal is currently very active, at least not seriously injured, and there is no problem playing in the national team. But this is a game between Barcelona club and the Spanish national team. Barcelona does not want Yamal to be called to the national team to play because there is a lesson in the past.

On the international match day last month, Yamal and Athletic Bilbao's Nico Williams were selected for the Spanish team. At that time, Athletic Bilbao submitted a report on Nico's physical condition, hoping that Dela Fuente would use the player with caution. However, Nico still started in two games, causing his original injury to worsen and he has not returned from injury until today. Yamal was injured in the first game, and the Spanish team's approach was to perform injection treatment. He still let him play the main player in the second game. As a result, Yamal had four games on the side after returning to Barcelona and did not return to participate in the competition until recently.

These examples make the club dare not easily send outstanding players to the national team. In addition to the Spanish team, France was also criticized by Paris Saint-Germain last month. The team's forwards Dembele and Douai were both injured during the national team game and have not recovered until now. The French team not only caused the Paris Saint-Germain Club to suffer losses, but also caused the two players who were still unable to use Dembele and Douai on the international match day in October a month later, resulting in a loss-making situation.

Fans who have been paying attention to European football for a long time should be clear that the injuries of outstanding players have shown an upward trend in recent years, which is related to the frequent competitions of players. The International Federation of Professional Football Players has frequently spoken out in the past two months, hoping to reduce the burden on elite players, but everyone has turned a blind eye to it.

The International Federation of Professional Football Players came to the conclusion after studying this summer's Club World Cup. They believe that the players are already overloaded and cannot get a systematic rest. In addition, the frequent national team competitions have caused these players to travel long distances, often getting off the plane and then hurried back to the club. If this continues, injuries will definitely come to you. For example, Chelsea's Argentine midfielder Enzo completed a total of 29 flights last season, with a flight time of 195 hours and a flight mileage of 149,010 kilometers.

Therefore, some European giant clubs actually have conflicts with the national team when they use players overload. They also know the players' physical condition, but they must play in their club games, and they can push them if possible, which leads to dissatisfaction among the head coaches of various national teams. Now no one can convince anyone.

Paris Saint-Germain made a suggestion after the injury of Dembele and Duere last month, hoping to establish a formal medical coordination framework to ensure systematic, documented, and two-way information exchange between the club and the national team's medical team, and to prevent players when recruiting and using them, especially those undergoing treatment.

In terms of medical facilities and understanding of players' physical condition, giant clubs are definitely better than national teams, because those team doctors live and work with players for a long time, while the team doctors of the national team cannot track and serve players for a long time. However, this plan did not receive a positive response in France, and I think it has been given up. However, as the number of games continues to increase, the health of players does need to be discussed carefully on the table, otherwise the football game will enter another dead end due to constant injuries.