Players spend much time with national teams - Juve president


  • Football
  • Saturday, 30 Jan 2016

Football - Juventus v Lazio - Italian Cup Final - Stadio Olimpico, Rome - 20/5/15 Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli celebrates after winning the Italian Cup Final Reuters / Giampiero Sposito

MILAN (Reuters) - Juventus president Andrea Agnelli has criticised the amount of time players spend with their national teams and said that FIFA's rules are far away from the interests of European clubs.

Agnelli's comments were the latest indication that Europe's powerful clubs are unhappy at way the sport is run and turned up the heat on soccer's scandal-plagued governing body FIFA.

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