What is fixture congestion and what can teams do to combat it?
Soccer 101
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4.9 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're taking a look at the scourge of the modern game: fixture congestion. Is it indeed a problem exclusive to the modern era? What can teams do to ease the workload? What can happen when a player is ‘red lining’? And the most important question: are we reaching breaking point?
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| 0:30.0 | Me Welcome everybody to soccer 101. |
| 0:48.5 | My name is Taylor Rockwell, and this week, unlike the best footballers in the world, |
| 0:52.5 | we're taking a break from the domestic campaigns, Cup competitions, Champions League, International Commitments, the Club World Cup, and the looming World Cup to discuss fixture congestion. It's an issue that's only becoming more common as the number of potential obligations for professional footballers only continues to mount. But how big of a problem is it? What are clubs doing to ease the load to the |
| 1:11.1 | extent that they can? What is the impact on players? Are we reaching a breaking point? So many |
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