The coaches of the most important national teams on the planet could have their full squads a week before the start of the activity
The World Cup in Qatar it will be played between November 21 and December 18 (Reuters)
The Qatar 2022 World CupIt will be historic, not only because it is the first to be held in an Arab country, but also because its organization forced the rescheduling of the world football calendar. Due to the high temperatures that plague the Asian region, it was impossible to play the tournament in June and July, which is why it was decided to move it to the end of November and the beginning of December. In this way, all the leagues and club championships were forced to adapt their fixtures.
One of the first competitions to publish its calendar was the Premier League. Last November it was reported that the 2022/23 seasonIt will begin on August 6 and will be interrupted on the weekend of November 13, that is, one week before the start of the World Cup in Qatar. This means that those footballers called up by their national team who play in the English league, they will be able to join the training days before the ball starts rolling in Doha.
It was joined by Serie A, the Bundesliga and Ligue 1, all from agreement to interrupt its activity the weekend of November 12 and 13. With this, it is clear that, barring an intervention from FIFA, the top stars on the planet will be able to start training for Qatar just one week before the start of the competition, scheduled for November 21. For its part, the Spanish League will stop on November 10, but there will be a date for the Copa del Rey on the 12 and 13 of that month.
This is not only a headache for the coaches of the national teams, but it is also a risk for the footballers themselves, who will not have the usual break that they usually have before each World Cup. But this is not all.
Messi would be released by PSG after November 13 and the World Cup starts on November 21 (Reuters)
In the case of Argentina, for example, this Thursday it was announced that the final of the Champions Trophy will be played on November 6 between Boca Juniors, champion of the League Cup, and the winner of the Professional Lig that will culminate at the end of October. The Xeneize club has among its ranks players like Luis Advíncula and Carlos Zambrano, who are usually part of Ricardo Gareca’s calls in Peru, who if he wins the playoff against the United Arab Emirates or Australia will play the World.
Regarding the Conmebol tournaments, the final of the Copa Sudamericana will be held on October 1, while the Libertadores final will be held on the 29th of the same month , so here there would be no problem with the calendar. The same happens with the Champions League in Europe, whose last games will be played on November 1 and 2 and will correspond to the group stage since the round of 16 will begin in 2023.
With this scenario, it only remains to wait for FIFA to intervene to order the clubs to release the players called up for the Qatar World Cup or for the teams themselves to voluntarily allow their players to leave early to join practices with your selections.
The Premier League, like Ligue 1, Bundesliga and Serie A, it will be played until the weekend of November 12 and 13 (Reuters)
For the moment, and taking into account that the five most important leagues from Europe will be discontinued on November 13, stars like Lionel Messi, Karim Benzema, Sadio Mané, Robert Lewandowski, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kevin De Bruyne, Neymar, Luis Suárez and Raheem Sterling, among many others, would arrive at the tournament with just enough to spare for training.
The most serious thing is that the coaches of the national teams will not have too many tests to see footballers in the remainder of the year. Next week several duels will be played through the FIFA Date window, one of the most attractive matches is the Finalissima between Argentina and Italy. Days later, the pending playoffs will be closed towards Qatar 2022 and after that, the next FIFA date will be in September, from the 19th to the 27th of that month. That will be the last one before the World Cup.
In this way, most coaches must know that they will be able to play only four games between now and November and that they will have their full squad for only six days before the opening match of Qatar 2022. A panorama that worries world football.