FIFA has launched a stabbing reprimand from FIFPRO, World Players' Union, who accuses the organization of 'Grandnouden', 'Chantage' and 'in covering' about their financial accounts.
The remarkable explanation of the best administrative body of the sport has sued FIFPRO for its 'series of personal and disrespectful attacks' and claimed that his criticism of FIFA suggests that their leadership 'does not really care about the players'.
It marks a deterioration of relationships between the two bodies that are at odds in the midst of the ever -increasing football calendar and problems with players' well -being.
“FIFPRO has chosen to pursue a path of public confrontation that is powered by artificial PR fighting -who have nothing to do with protecting the well -being of professional players, but rather want to retain their own personal positions and interests,” said a FIFA spokesperson on Friday evening.
'The worldwide football community deserves better. Players deserve better. '
FIFAs Lambast from the organization that represents 66,000 players for men and women around the world, followed claims from Alex Phillips, the general secretary of FIFPRO, that stars are concerned about potential recoil of clubs and administrative bodies.
FIFPRO believes that FIFA has followed an 'autocratic' approach to his administration under President Gianni Infantino and accused the body of ignoring the needs of players.
“It is unacceptable for an organization that claims that global leadership is turning a blind eye for the basic needs of the players,” FIFPRO said after a meeting of 58 players' unions in Amsterdam on Friday.
“A clear example of this decoupling was the recent club World Cup, celebrated by President Infantino, despite being held under circumstances that were extreme and inappropriate for a person, with regard to a disturbing insensitivity to human rights, even when it concerns top athletes.”
Players have expressed concern about their lack of rest, caused by the number of matches they have to play, that has only increased with the introduction of the renewed Club World Cup this summer.
Chelsea was crowned winners of the tournament on July 13 after beating Paris Saint-Germain in a final that took place only 35 days before the start of their Premier League campaign.
Prior to the final of the competition, FIFA held a meeting to tackle concern about player welfare and a minimum three-week outdoor season was agreed. However, it is not understood then no FIFPRO representatives have been invited and it has therefore been seen by the organization as a Charade.
But FIFA insists that the measures agreed during the meeting, which also include a mandatory at least 72 hours of rest between competitions, prove their seriousness to tackle worries and 'go beyond what FIFPRO did that he asked'.
“Instead of welcoming these unprecedented announcements that benefit players around the world, FIFPRO responded with a series of personal and disrespectful attacks,” a FIFA spokesperson continued.
'This approach reveals a lot about FIFPRO priorities. It suggests that their leadership does not really care about the players, but rather for internal political fights and their image.
'The proposed reforms of FIFA are about influencing real change to support players and are much more important than the preservation of the observed image of FIFPRO.
'FIFPRO has unfortunately consistently refused to go constructively in these efforts. Instead of making meaningful contribution, they have opted for theatrical accusations, so that media headlines prioritize above measurable progress for the players they claim to represent. '
Earlier this month, FIFPRO president Sergio Marchi accused the FIFA of choosing to continue to increase income at the expense of the bodies and health of the players', compared the approach to the 'Brood- en Circuses' tactics that was warned by Keizer Nero in the old Rome and warned that next summer and warned that it was next summer and that it was following the following summer and that it was following the following summer and Mexico is.
On Friday, FIFA quoted 'the introduction of five substitutions' and 'concussion replacements', in addition to other 'broad measures' that it claims, has better supported players, and claims that it is more substantive than everything achieved by FIFPRO.
“These are not vague promises or grandeur, but are real and tangible actions,” added FIFA spokesperson.
'Because FIFPRO is interested in tackling things such as good governance, they might want to consider publishing their own articles of association and releasing transparent annual accounts, to ensure that what is preached is also practiced.
'Let's be clear: you can't preach transparency while you work in opacity. The reality is this: FIFA remains strongly dedicated to placing players in the core of the future of football, not only in words, but through concrete regulation and reform.
'FIFA invites all real representatives of players to join us with that work – not by attacking from the sidelines, but by participating in transparent, solution -oriented dialogue.
'That is why FIFA FIFPRO invites you to return to the negotiating table, once they have stopped their blackmail and withdrew their complaints, and as soon as they have published their articles of association, their full financial reports (including all their sources of income, the detailed intellectual property rights of the players they claim to have a number Football organizations), and the full list of individual members who are claimed. “