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The serious injury to Jamal Musiala provides the sad proof that the club World Cup for German teams does not have any good. In addition to the top officials, the clubs such as FC Bayern, who participated in the FIFA boss Gianni Infantino millions of Circus from the start, are responsible.
With Jürgen Klopp, a big name in world football had reported last week, which warned of the consequences of the club World Cup currently held in the USA: The lack of relaxation for the players in summer will lead to injuries that they have never existed before, according to Klopp’s fear. This could happen in the coming season, otherwise at the 2026 World Cup or after.
It was not a week for the club World Cup to provide the first document for Klopp’s dark theses: Jamal Musiala, offensive fixing at FC Bayern Munich, had to get off the pitch in the quarter-final game against Paris Saint-Germain with an obviously serious injury. After the first reports, he suffered a broken fibula and further injuries to the ribbons. What is certain is that he will be canceled for several months.
Musiala as a rehabilitation patient-Bavaria’s heir from the club World Cup
Of course, Musiala could also have pulled the serious injury in a training accident, or in a friendly game in summer preparation. But it is the club World Cup, planted for over four weeks by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and pimped over for four weeks, of which the Munich will now take home their most important creative player as rehabilitation patients.
Since the start of the tournament, the discussions about the club World Cup have been particularly about the great heat in the stadiums, also with regard to the 2026 World Cup, which will also take place to a large extent in the United States. But Musiala’s injury is now in focus again in the focus of Infantino’s summer fair problem: the stresses for a large number of top players who will play through the third summer with the World Cup in the coming year and have no opportunity for real regeneration.
The FIFPRO player union had renewed its criticism of the ever fuller calendar before the club World Cup. During the tournament there were occasional critical voices of coaches like Dortmunds Niko Kovac (“Has nothing to do with football in itself”)mostly in relation to the difficult climatic conditions or the early kick -off times.
Infantino’s summer circus – supported by FC Bayern and BVB
In the case of the club managers, on the other hand, participation in the club World Cup had never been seriously questioned in advance: the European Club Association ECA, with BVB Managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke on the board, spoke of “Fantastic news”when Infantino presented the plans for his summer circus with 32 teams and the associated sources of income for Europe’s top clubs. The FIFA boss had guaranteed the twelve European clubs, an entry fee of around $ 38 million, plus further premiums for every game won.
FC Bayern, for example, is said to have recorded around 50 million euros by reaching the quarter -finals. The record champion, in the person of CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen, also always supported the club World Cup in the new large format. FC Bayern did not act differently than any other stock corporation, in the sense of the shareholder value and a short -term maximization of the profit. However, the Munich people now have to live with more long -term consequences for the company because one of their greatest top performers is in the foreseeable future.
Musiala injury also a shock for the DFB
Musiala’s injury will also worry about the German Football Association (DFB). Also from the DFB tip, there were no critical voices to the club World Cup in advance. DFB President Bernd Neuendorf, member of the FIFA Council, had always supported Infantino’s major projects, and the controversial allocation of the 2034 World Cup to Saudi Arabia, and has recently supported. The World Cup is scheduled for the national team next summer, one of the greatest hope is Jamal Musiala.