UEFA President says the football calendar is maxed out

Aleksander Čeferin says cutting the number of games is also equally difficult

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00:00For sure, we are to the limit.

00:04I think that the players should have a month free after the season.

00:11I think that when there is no Euro, of course, Copa America, Gold Cup and the rest,

00:18or the World Cup, they should have free summer.

00:24Now, we discuss a lot with FIFA Pro Europe.

00:28We discuss with European football clubs and with the leagues.

00:32But, you know, the problem with this is that, from one point of view,

00:42somebody is asking us to have less matches, but the Premier League has two cups.

00:50They say, no, no, no, no, it's our tradition to have two cups.

00:54Then you have clubs who come to us and say, we need more matches because we need more revenues.

00:59But then they go back and say, UEFA forced us to have more matches.

01:03Some say 20 teams in the league are too many.

01:07When you say that to the leagues that have 20, they would attack you physically.

01:12So it's a complicated one, but for sure there is no room for more matches.

01:18For sure there is no room for any other competition.