GENEVA (AP) — Europe’s top clubs want FIFA to use some of its billion-dollar World Cup revenues to insure players who are injured during international games.
European Club Association chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge says FIFA’s World Cup take is getting bigger and it can afford to pay for a new insurance policy.
Rummenigge says the president of European soccer’s ruling body has agreed to work with clubs on a plan but talks with FIFA have not gone well.
Rummenigge’s club, Bayern Munich, has lost Dutch forward Arjen Robben until next year because of a thigh injury he aggravated during the World Cup.
European clubs also want FIFA to end international exhibition games played each August.
