{"id":467870,"date":"2023-10-31T16:18:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=467870"},"modified":"2023-10-31T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T20:19:39","slug":"players-could-withdraw-from-2034-world-cup-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/players-could-withdraw-from-2034-world-cup-in-saudi-arabia\/","title":{"rendered":"Players could withdraw from 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players may opt to withdraw from the 2034 World Cup, which is set to be held in Saudi Arabia, claims the head of the PFA.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced on Tuesday that Australia withdrew its bid for the event, leaving Saudi Arabia as the only option. <\/p>\n<p>That means that the time schedule will be, just like last year in Qatar, during the winter, which will cause major disturbance in the league calendars.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PFA chief executive Maheta Molango has warned that footballers could PULL OUT of the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia because of workload issues. \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\udde6\u274c<\/p>\n<p>From \u2022\u2022 [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeKeegan_DM?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@MikeKeegan_DM<\/a>] <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Czcqj2TKt1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Czcqj2TKt1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IBT4F (@ibt4f) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ibt4f\/status\/1719446811067240678?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As a result, many top players may opt to stay home and reject going to Saudi Arabia, claims Maheta Molango.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We all want our biggest tournaments to showcase our best players,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That means we need to start listening when players start opting out of international football due to the pressures of the workload they are facing. We think that\u2019s a real risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players may opt to withdraw from the 2034 World Cup, which is set to be held in Saudi Arabia, claims the head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":467871,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21702],"news_category":[14235,14236],"gn_keywords":[21703],"acf":{"announce":"PFA chief hinted that many players may opt to quit the World Cup due to the workload","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467873,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/467870\/revisions\/467873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467870"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=467870"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=467870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}