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    ‘We all want our biggest tournaments to showcase our best players,’ he told Mail Sport. ‘That means we need to start listening when players start opting out of international football due to the pressures of the workload they are facing. We think that’s a real risk’

    Molango also called for more clarity around the fixture list. ‘It’s important that we wait to see the detail, but we have to get to a situation where there is far greater co-ordination around the organisation of the global fixture calendar,’ he said.

    ‘We can’t keep treating tournaments and competitions in isolation. There is always a knock-on impact.’

    Molango has spent time with Manchester United defender Raphael Varane – who retired from international football at the age of 29 earlier this year after playing in the final for France in Qatar. And he questioned a return to a winter event.

    ‘The men’s World Cup in Qatar was played in the European winter, but this was understood to be an exceptional circumstance,’ he said. ‘If that now isn’t going to be the case, we need to have a proper understanding of what that means for the scheduling of the wider calendar and, crucially, the impact on players in terms of injuries and fitness.

    ‘We’re not far enough removed from Qatar yet to assess that, but we know there is concern among players that they simply never get a break. Lengthening seasons to accommodate tournament scheduling obviously isn’t going to help.’



















  • Full quotes: 'Ive to wait for the right moment. You all know me. When I speak, I don’t go around the pot. Then I don’t do politics.

    'I know what has been going on behind the scenes, but when I tell my story, I want everyone to listen to my point of view for once and nothing is taken out of context.

    ‘The time is not yet right for that. We are in a good groove. At Roma, we won the last three matches and I left with good vibes. For the national team, it is also an important week. But I read so much bulls**t.’

    'I had supposedly told myself I was going to a certain club [Inter Milan], but that didn’t make sense.

    'There were also a few clubs I wouldn’t go to [Juventus]. At one point, I was about to explode. When 90 per cent of what is said about you is not true, it is hard to keep your mouth shut. Five years ago, I would definitely have exploded, but now I didn’t put my energy into it. Not now, either. If I really told the truth here at this moment, many would be shocked.

    ‘I just want to make an example of NBA player LeBron James, even though I’m not like LeBron. Bam, bam, bam — that one took a lot of criticism but handled it unflinchingly. I want to adopt that mentality.’


  • ! GOAL now report that the audio of the controversial VAR call that unjustly denied Luis Diaz a world-class goal will be released to the public soon.

    !Liverpool fans and neutrals alike will no doubt be extremely keen to hear what exactly when on between match officials and the VAR team during the clash over the weekend.

    !Diogo Jota’s wife, Rute Cardoso, has already hit out at Premier League officials for the lack of quality refereeing at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

    !It remains to be heard whether the VAR audio can shed any light on this frustrating and perplexing decision by the match officials.

    The timeframe for the release of the audio is currently unknown.