Chelsea vs Brighton Live Free Premier League Football September 28, 2024
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Chelsea vs Brighton Live Free Premier League, Brighton face Chelsea in a Premier League game on Saturday, September 28, 2024 (9/28/24) at Stamford Bridge in London, England.
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Guardiola - Rodri out for season
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What: Premier League game
Who: Brighton vs. Chelsea
When: Saturday, September 28, 2024
Time: 10 a.m. ET
Where: September 28, 2024 (9/28/24)
TV: N/A
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Live stream: Peacock
AP Soccer story:
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Pep Guardiola has told elite soccer players they are the only ones who can force change in a growing dispute over the number of games they are being asked to play.
Manchester City midfielder Rodri says players are close to going on strike because of an increasingly congested schedule that will be added to next year by an expanded Club World Cup in the United States.
City manager Guardiola said on Friday the game’s stars might have to “take a voice and do something” if they want to make a stand.
“If something is going to change, always (it) must come from the players,” Guardiola said. “That business (soccer) can be without managers, can be without sporting directors, can be without media, can be without owners, but without the players (it) cannot be played.
“So the only (ones) that have the power to do it is them.”
Players’ unions have legally challenged FIFA over the expansion of the Club World Cup, which will be a 32-team event for the first time next year, up from seven. It is slated for the offseason for many major leagues in June-July.
World players union FIFPRO has raised concerns about the increasing physical and mental demands on players, but the competition has been welcomed by the European Club Association, which represents the continent’s top clubs, including City.
Unions in England and France filed a claim against FIFA at the Brussels Court of Commerce in June and challenged FIFA’s “decisions to unilaterally set the international match calendar.”
The Champions League has also been expanded this season with two more games in the new-look group stage.
Spain international Rodri played in 10 different competitions in 2022-23 when the campaign was further congested by a midseason World Cup. He followed that last season by playing 64 times for club and country, including a run to the final of the European Championship, which Spain won.