Jules Koundé, topping the list with 5,872 minutes played this year, reflects ongoing concerns about player workload amidst increasing match frequency and insufficient recovery time.
Koundé highlighted, 'Every year, we have more matches and less time to recover. It's not for want of saying it... There will come a time when we will have to strike.'
With domestic club football accounting for 73.2% of the minutes played among the top 100 players, player workload is a growing concern.
FIFPro's antitrust complaint against FIFA stresses that the governing body is misusing its regulatory power regarding player participation in increasingly congested schedules.
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