Thibaut Courtois, the goalkeeper for Real Madrid, believes that elite football players should have longer off seasons. He bases this argument on the NBA schedule, which is currently in discussion.
The latest well-known figure to voice concerns about the football schedule is Thibaut Courtois of Real Madrid, who claims that burnout is primarily caused by not having enough summer vacation.
The Belgium team for this summer’s European Championship did not include former Chelsea goalkeeper Courtois, who was sidelined for a large portion of the previous campaign due to injury.
And he says it is not the number of games that is the problem but the gap between seasons. A big basketball fan, Courtois points to the NBA schedule – which runs intensely between October and April for the regular season with play-offs until June – as a reference point.
“It’s difficult,” he told Marca. “I don’t think it’s necessarily the games (that are the problem). It’s the break between one season and another.
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