(Reuters) - Eighty seven percent of professional soccer players favour limiting the number of back-to-back matches to guard against a heavy workload, saying "we are athletes, not machines", according to a survey by global players' union FIFPRO.
The survey of 1,055 players and 92 performance experts, published on Thursday, showed that both groups support new measures that would guarantee a minimum length close season break and limit repeated back-to-back games - those with less than five days rest between each one.
