Geneva (AP) – Football said a fiercely with the recently concluded heat FIFA Club World Cup In the United States-the World Cup is co-rabbing with Mexico and Canada in the United States-players and fans may be faced.
As the temperature rises worldwide, scientists have warned that staging the World Cup and other football tournaments in the Northern Hemisphere is becoming increasingly dangerous for both players and the audience. Some suggest that FIFA may have to consider adjusting the football calendar to reduce the risk of diseases related to heat.
Professor Pierce Fonder, director of the Prestley Center for Climate Futures in England, said, “The deep as we go in the deep decade, without considering more dramatic measures, playing in the winter months and/or cooler letters are equally at risk.” “I am rapidly worried that we are only one of the uttavaves away from a sports tragedy and I would like to bow to governing bodies in climate and health science.”
Tournament saucer in June and July is a tradition to return to the first World Cup in 1930.
Since then, June, July and August have a period of three months globally. Hot from 1.05 ° C from Celsius (1.89 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the US National Ocean and atmospheric administration. Meanwhile, European summer temperature has increased by 1.81 degrees C. The rate of warming has intensified since 1990.
Climate scientists say that it is a factor that needs to be considered while playing high -intensity outdoor games like football.
If you want to play 10 hours a day football, they should have time in the morning and late evening, “Frederic Otto, a climatologist at Imperial College, London, told the Associated Press in an email,” If you don’t want the players and fans to die or get seriously ill due to hot fatigue. ,
FIFA Adapts
With excessive heat and thunder FIFA’s new extended tournament for club teams influenced. The Club World Cup was held in 11 American cities from 14 June to 13 July.
FIFA optimized the team bench by tying up its extreme summer protocols, adding additional brakes in the game, more field-side water and cooling the team bench with air fans and more shadows.
Nevertheless, Chelsea Midfielder Enzo Fernandez said that heat He got dizzy And urged FIFA to avoid the afternoon kickoff in the World Cup next year.
Global Soccer Players Union, FifrowHas warned that six out of 16 World Cup cities next year are “extremely high risk” for heat stress.
FIFA president Gianni Infantino addressed summer concerns on Saturday, stating that a handful of World Cup stadiums, which have been covered, would be used for the day -long game next year.
Excessive heat can become a big challenge in the following World Cup in 2030Which will be co-dominated by Spain, Portugal and Morocco. The games are to be played from mid -June to mid -July. All three countries have already seen Temperature increase This summer is 40 ° C (above 100 Fahrenheit).
FIFA reduces the risk of heat in itself House evaluation Among the 2030 World Cup dialect, “The weather conditions are difficult to predict with current growth in global and local climate, but there is no possibility of affecting the health of players or other participants.”
heat exhaustion
Physical effects of playing 90 minutes of football in direct sunlight during the hottest part of the day can be severe and potentially can result in results in hyperthromia – unusually high body temperature.
“When players experience hyperthermia, they also experience an increase in heart stress,” said Julian Periyard of Canberra University.
He said, “If the core temperature rises excessively, excessive heat disease can occur,” is leading to muscle cramps, heat tiredness and even life-threatening heat stroke, he said.
Many sports programs held in summer risk their onset time to the morning or late night, so that the disease related to risk heat, including marathon, could be reduced. Olympics Or track world ChampionshipsThe morning kickoffs, however, are rare in football, where the World Cup match schedules are often set in mind the European TV audience.
It will be difficult for FIFA to avoid the day -long World Cup kickoff, which increases the number of teams participating in 2026 from 32 to 48 in view of the packed match schedule.
Calendar reethink
Summer becomes mainly an issue when the World Cup is held in the Northern Hemisphere, as June and July are the winter months in the Southern Hemisphere.
FIFA is stuck in its traditional June-July schedule for the men’s World Cup in 2022, when the tournament in November-December went to the tournament to avoid heat heat in Qatar. Some similar expectations are expected when the neighbor Saudi Arabia hosts the tournament in 2034.
However, it is complex to take the World Cup to another part of the year because it means that Europe’s powerful football league should disrupt its season, affecting both the Domestic League and the Champions League.
FIFA did not answer questions from AP whether alternative dates for 2030 and 2034 World Cups are being considered or not.
When and where to determine the World Cup and other outdoor sports programs, there is a possibility of more pressure because the world is hot.
Athletes and even everyday people carrying out basic physical activities are now exposed to 28% more of moderate or high heat risk in 2023, as they were in the 1990s, Oli J, a professor of Sydney University, said that who has helped in size policy. Australian Open in Tennis,
Michael Mann, a climate scientific university at Pennsylvania, said, “It is a symbol of being something big.” “Not only the danger and discomfort to fans and players, but also the fundamentally disruptive nature of climate change when it is the current method of our life.”
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Bornstein contributed to Washington, DC
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