Football: Bayern’s Hoeness criticises scheduling

Fifa criticised for allowing so many international matches to be played this early in the season.

BERLIN: Bayern Munich’s president Uli Hoeness criticised football’s world governing body Fifa for allowing so many international matches to be played this early in the season. “It is a joke that we are only in mid-September and have only played two league matches but have already had to play three internationals,” the outspoken Hoeness told German Sky Sport News. “It’s ridiculous.” The Bavarian club’s chairman, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, has previously gone public with his displeasure at the number of international dates on the Fifa calendar, an issue which has created rifts in the past between the Bundesliga and the German Football Federation.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 13^th, 2012.