Real players may get holidays in season - Ancelotti

Real Madrid head Carlo Ancelotti says nan nine are considering giving players holidays during nan play to header pinch fixture congestion.

Ancelotti's comments travel amid nan Professional Footballers' Association announcing successful June that it, pinch nan support of players' national Fifpro, has joined a ineligible action against Fifa complete nan "overloaded and unworkable" shot calendar.

"The players request rest, they request holidays and we are reasoning astir giving individual holidays to nan players during nan season," said Ancelotti.

"We are reasoning astir giving in-season breaks, springiness a week disconnected for a subordinate truthful he tin spell and enactment pinch his family, particularly world players, who person very small remainder because they usually don't get moreover a day's vacation successful world breaks.

"We are assessing it pinch nan aesculapian unit and nan beingness preparation."

Real Madrid won nan La Liga title and Champions League past play earlier a number of their squad were progressive successful Euro 2024 aliases nan Copa America during nan summer.

This season, each 3 European nine competitions will beryllium expanded to 36 teams. The Champions League and Europa League will person 8 first-phase games compared to nan six successful nan 2023-24 campaign.

Real will play successful a caller Fifa Intercontinental Cup title successful December 2024, which will impact nan winners of nan Champions League facing a squad that comes done intercontinental play-offs.

The La Liga run finishes connected 25 May, 2025 earlier nan Champions League last connected 31 May.

There will past by a model of world games from 2-10 June earlier nan commencement of nan extended Fifa Club World Cup.

"At nan infinitesimal we still don't moreover cognize nan day [of nan Club World Cup], aforesaid pinch nan Intercontinental Cup," added Ancelotti, who broadside hit Atalanta to triumph nan Uefa Super Cup connected Wednesday.

"We are bidding for 7 titles but we still don't cognize erstwhile aliases how.

"The 2025-26 play mightiness commencement earlier because of nan [2026] World Cup, truthful we person to scheme accordingly starting this season.

"For example, erstwhile Vinicius Jr comes backmost aft playing pinch Brazil, alternatively of playing successful La Liga, he rests for 3 aliases 4 days, he goes connected vacation and past he comes back.

"That's nan only way. Normally those players train, moreover if they don't play. But we're going to return that away, fto them do what they want connected those days. That's what we're going to do."