A shocking statement from Chelsea coach .. America is not suitable for football tournaments

Chelsea coach, Italian Chelsea, criticized his team’s match with Benfica, in the price of the FIFA World Cup final due to weather conditions, considering that “this is not football.”

Chelsea qualified for the quarter-finals after beating Benfica 4-1 after the extension, in a 4-hour and 39-minute match, due to a two-hour hiatus after a thunderstorm.

This was the sixth time that a match in the competition was suspended, according to the rules approved in the United States that stipulate the suspension of external sporting events in the event of a possible risk of lightning.

“The number of matches affected by stopping requires rethink.

“For me personally, this is not football. Six matches here. I think this is ridiculous. This is not a football,” he added, saying, “It is never true, a completely new thing that is difficult for me to understand.”

“I understand that for safety reasons, you must stop the match. But if you stop seven or eight games, this means that this is not the right place to hold this competition,” the former Leicester coach continued.

Chelsea was around the corner from winning the victory after Rais James scored a free kick in the second half, to give his team the progress 1-0 four minutes before the end of the original time.

But the warning of the storm forced the players to leave the stadium, and the match was not resumed until about two hours.

“We have played a great match for 85 minutes, then we stopped for two hours, and when we resumed playing it was a completely different match. The same match is no longer because the rhythm was broken. “

Despite his criticism, Marcelca stressed that he is still a fan of the Club World Cup, which was expanded this year to include 32 teams and held in the United States as an informal preparation for the 2026 World Cup in North America.

“It is a great competition. It is the Club World Cup, the best clubs are here. But the comment of six or seven games is not normal. How many games were hung in the World Cup? Most likely zero. In the European Cup? Zero. There is a problem.”