Football legend rips FIFA World Cup 'disgrace'

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The timing of this year's World Cup has been labelled "an implicit disgrace" by erstwhile England planetary Jamie Carragher, with respective players acceptable to miss the tourney done injury.

A increasing database of stars person already been ruled retired and much look a contention against the timepiece to beryllium fit, chiefly owed to the look that the showpiece tourney has been carved into a abbreviated model successful the mediate of the European nine season.

The determination to play the tourney during the big nation's wintertime has besides caused problems for players.

FIFA and the big federation initially said the tourney would beryllium played successful the region's summer, which would person fixed players ample clip to retrieve from niggling injuries. However, playing successful Qatar successful the summertime was not viable for the players with temperatures routinely hitting 45 degrees oregon more.

So they moved it to the wintertime play which gives players small clip betwixt playing for their nine sides and past joining their planetary squads.

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"I deliberation it's an implicit disgrace the World Cup is successful the presumption that it's successful for tons of reasons," Carragher told CBS Sports.

"It was corrupt that Qatar were fixed the World Cup, we knew that astatine the time.

"They campaigned connected having it successful the summer, it was intolerable to person a World Cup successful the summertime with the temperature. It gets moved to wherever it is present successful the mediate of the season.

"Players from each astir Europe and the satellite could get injured successful the adjacent mates of weeks. (French prima Raphael) Varane was crying coming disconnected the transportation astatine Stamford Bridge, that's however adjacent we are to a World Cup.

"A 10-day oregon two-week wounded is going to support players retired of a World Cup, which should not beryllium happening. And it each starts with FIFA giving them the World Cup successful the archetypal spot and past moving it.

"The worldly that goes connected successful their state is simply a wholly antithetic issue, but I deliberation it's perfectly disgusting."

The Socceroos are among a big of teams to acquisition wounded problems, with the latest circular of English Premier League games throwing up immoderate curveballs for England especially.

Most players competing successful the EPL person 3 games betwixt present and the World Cup.

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It's understood immoderate players person started to alteration strength successful nine grooming sessions, to support themselves fresher for the game's marquee event.

"Normally, a two-week wounded should let you astatine the extremity of the season, if you miss the past 2 weeks of the season, you person 20 days to prepare," Arsenal large Thierry Henry said.

"This time, connected the past crippled of the play (before the break) … past abruptly the World Cup starts.

"It doesn't springiness you immoderate accidental for you to retrieve if you get injured."

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