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.
  • 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

  • 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.

    • matt_harvey10@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Geography does not check out. Both are in the northern hemisphere so have summer/winter at the same time

  • TheWitcherMigs@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Love the headline, eurocentrism at it finest. Is the season who caused the injuries? Every World Cup in Winter is like this? South Africa, Brasil, Argentina, Chile and Uruguay world cups had more injuries them? Or it was the time of the year not related at all with the season (of course it was).

    Until the 90s the best South American players played in their countries, and the WC was always midseason for Brazilians, it’s a problem only when it happens with europeans? Pathetic