Kibe Kru heres a part of an article where Ronaldo talks about the schdeule and how he thinks that players need to be heard over the fixtures.
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Brazil striker Ronaldo wants soccer's authorities to listen to the players before adding to an ever growing fixture list.
At present, nobody cares about the consequences of too much football, he said in an interview with Reuters.
Ronaldo also defended the multi-million dollar salaries earned by modern-day players, described Argentine and Uruguayan defenders as specialists in provocation and said he would continue to play for Brazil for as long as he enjoyed it.
Ronaldo fell victim to fixture congestion problems earlier this year when he landed himself in hot water by asking Brazil to rest him from the Confederations Cup.
Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, who had warned that the national team was more important than holidays, eventually agreed -- but also released him from the preceding two World Cup qualifiers, including one away to Argentina.
"I fought to have my holidays respected, otherwise one season would have run into the other and in the year before the World Cup this would have been complicated," said the Real Madrid player.
"The players don't have time to unwind. In Europe we have two competitions which are very important, the Spanish championship and the Champions League, and this gives you very little time to recover."
"I think the right thing would be for the players' opinions to be heard. We're the ones who put on the show, we go onto the field, we play every weekend, sometimes twice a week, so I think it would be important to hear what we've got to say."
"But this doesn't happen at the moment. Unfortunately, the players as a profession are not united and not many people listen to us."
"When they draw up the calendar, the last thing they think about is the physical condition of the players. Nobody thinks about whether we can complete a year playing three competitions, other things are more important."
Although he did not enjoy being dropped by Brazil, Ronaldo says the incident is water under the bridge as he gears up for his fourth World Cup in Germany next year.
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Brazil striker Ronaldo wants soccer's authorities to listen to the players before adding to an ever growing fixture list.
At present, nobody cares about the consequences of too much football, he said in an interview with Reuters.
Ronaldo also defended the multi-million dollar salaries earned by modern-day players, described Argentine and Uruguayan defenders as specialists in provocation and said he would continue to play for Brazil for as long as he enjoyed it.
Ronaldo fell victim to fixture congestion problems earlier this year when he landed himself in hot water by asking Brazil to rest him from the Confederations Cup.
Coach Carlos Alberto Parreira, who had warned that the national team was more important than holidays, eventually agreed -- but also released him from the preceding two World Cup qualifiers, including one away to Argentina.
"I fought to have my holidays respected, otherwise one season would have run into the other and in the year before the World Cup this would have been complicated," said the Real Madrid player.
"The players don't have time to unwind. In Europe we have two competitions which are very important, the Spanish championship and the Champions League, and this gives you very little time to recover."
"I think the right thing would be for the players' opinions to be heard. We're the ones who put on the show, we go onto the field, we play every weekend, sometimes twice a week, so I think it would be important to hear what we've got to say."
"But this doesn't happen at the moment. Unfortunately, the players as a profession are not united and not many people listen to us."
"When they draw up the calendar, the last thing they think about is the physical condition of the players. Nobody thinks about whether we can complete a year playing three competitions, other things are more important."
Although he did not enjoy being dropped by Brazil, Ronaldo says the incident is water under the bridge as he gears up for his fourth World Cup in Germany next year.
