‘Everybody will suffer from too much football’
Euro 2020, which had been scheduled to take place last summer, begins on June 11 with 24 teams set to vie for the trophy.
The European Championship will be played across 11 major cities across Europe -- a first of its kind in the 60-year history of the tournament.
Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski, who will carry Poland's hopes at this summer's European Championship, said the packed soccer schedule over the next few years is a major problem as players will struggle to deliver their best when there is little time for recovery.
The Pole played 60 matches for club and country since soccer restarted last May following the Covid-19 stoppage.
"So many people forget we're humans, we're not machines, we cannot play every day at the highest level of performance," Lewandowski told The Times in an interview.
"For football and for young players, that will be the big problem, to stay at the top for many years, because now and maybe the next two years, that will be extreme: so many big games."
"Even for the fans, I think so many games will be more boring because if you wait for the games longer, there's more expectation, that feeling that you've been waiting for this," he added.
"The quality of games will go down. It's not possible to stay with this quality on the top with so many games."
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