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YOU WONT BELIEVE: 2 - What They Never Told You

Cole Palmer and Jude Bellingham named in 2025 FIFPRO World 11

Chelsea and Liverpool are both represented in the select side, voted for by professional players worldwide

Evening Standard

2025 FIFPRO World XI: Full Team of Winners Revealed

22 players have been celebrated as the best across both men’s and women’s football.

Sports Illustrated

Six England players join three from Spain in Fifpro women’s World XI

Six England players have been named in the Fifpro women’s World XI after the Lionesses won Euro 2025 with victory against Spain in the final

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Why Arsenal stars and Harry Kane were snubbed by FIFPRO's World XI shortlist

Just one Gunner has been included in the 26-man shortlist

Evening Standard

Club World Cup has left an injury trail that is damaging football. But will anyone listen?

Response to strained schedule has been more football than ever, and a danger that the best will have nothing left to give at the World Cup

The Guardian - UK

Grounding Ryan air: globetrotting Socceroo wants change

No male footballer travelled more last year than Maty Ryan and he hopes FIFA and other bodies can start to support players more with heavy travel loads.

AAP

Chelsea injuries are ‘consequences’ from Club World Cup run, says Maresca

Enzo Maresca believes Chelsea are paying the price for their Club World Cup exertions, with the manager without ‘seven or eight’ players for Liverpool

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Footballers could go on strike over fixture schedule, warns Chris Wood

Players are urging Fifa and football’s governing bodies to put safeguards in place to protect them

The Independent UK

Concerns raised over Lamine Yamal after ‘alarming’ report on player welfare

Global players' union Fifpro believes the workload placed on Yamal could risk his ‘long-term development and well-being’

The Independent UK

Former Chelsea midfielder seeks £56m in damages over contract dispute

Ex-Chelsea, Arsenal and Real Madrid midfielder Lassana Diarra is suing FIFA and the Royal Belgian Football Association (RBFA) for damages worth £56 million (€65m)

FourFourTwo

Could latest seismic legal challenge leave Fifa wobbling on its perch?

Football’s world governing body is facing a growing number of issues, not least a new class action from the Netherlands

The Guardian - UK

Premier League will not be cut to 18 clubs amid calendar tensions, says league chief

Ligue 1 reduced from 20 to 18 clubs ahead of the 2023/24 season

The Independent UK

The options available to Alexander Isak as he trains at former club amid transfer speculation

The Sweden international has been heavily linked with Liverpool

The Independent UK

Why players ‘fear’ criticising heavy workload amid busy football schedule

Football governing body FIFA has been accused of ‘turning a blind eye to the basic needs of players’

The Independent UK

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Al Jazeera

Players hit back at FIFA and Infantino after Club World Cup

FIFA and its President Gianni Infantino have been criticised for the expanded Club World Cup in the domestic off season.

The National (Scotland)

FIFA accused of ‘turning blind eye to basic needs of players’ by global union

The Independent UK

More competitions, longer seasons and other demands put focus on workload in elite women's soccer

England’s Millie Bright bowed out of the European Championship because of mental and physical exhaustion

The Independent UK

Fifa president Gianni Infantino is an autocrat who doesn’t care about players, says head of FifPro

Fifpro president Sergio Marchi has been scathing about Gianni Infantino’s Fifa presidency

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The National (Scotland)

Infantino and FIFA might have finally done it - I'm getting tired of football

The Club World Cup has now ended, just as the Scottish competitive season has started. How much football is too much football, even for ardent fans?

The Independent UK

Gianni Infantino, Donald Trump and how Fifa went full Maga at the Club World Cup

After the bizarre spectacle of Gianni Infantino’s Club World Cup final being hijacked by Donald Trump, football has officially entered its post-truth era

The Guardian - UK

Club World Cup dismissed as a Fifa ‘fiction’ by head of players’ union

The president of the world players’ union has described the Club World Cup as a ‘fiction’ and compared Gianni Infantino to the Roman emperor Nero

The Independent UK

No, Gianni – the Club World Cup wasn’t a ‘huge, huge, huge success’

Fifa boss Gianni Infantino took a leaf out of the Donald Trump playbook when he was quick to declare the Club World Cup a roaring success, but the actual evidence would suggest otherwise

The Independent UK

FifPro release scathing statement against Fifa president Gianni Infantino: ‘The man who thinks he’s god’

It comes after FifPro were snubbed from attending a meeting on player welfare staged by Infantino

The Guardian - UK

Fifa dispute with global players’ union escalates over rest period decision

No one from Fifpro, the global players’ union, was present at Fifa’s meeting in New York when it said players should have 72 hours ‘at least’ between games

The Independent UK

Main players’ union not invited to ‘key’ Fifa meeting over footballer welfare

Fifa president Gianni Infantino staged a meeting on Saturday, but FifPro were not invited

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