FIFA: "The international calendar has to be fine-tuned and debated" (Gianni Infantino)

"The international match calendar that we have to focus on for the future of football…It has to be fine-tuned. It has to be debated. It has to be discussed by all stakeholders," said Gianni Infantino (ITA-SUI), president of FIFA, at the 44^th Ordinary UEFA Congress, in Amsterdam (Netherlands) on 03/03/2020.

"We have to ask ourselves many questions that maybe we avoided asking ourselves in the past. 'How many matches can a player play in a year?' 'How many competitions do we have?' 'How many competitions should we have?' 'What kind of competitions do we need for the future?' 'Do we play too much or don’t we play enough, maybe, in some parts of the world?' And we have to realise that the international match calendar is a global match calendar which has to take into account many issues such as, of course, climate and geography," said the FIFA president.

"We need to consider the fans as well. The fans are the lifeblood of football… and we have to work for them and offer them what they want to see, and if possible even a little bit more," said Infantino.

"66 countries will be using VAR…