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The Straits Times
|June 28, 2025
Soaring temperatures at the ongoing Club World Cup have raised concerns over afternoon kick-off times at the 2026 World Cup, as the expanded tournament poses logistical challenges for the organisers.
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NEW YORK - Soaring temperatures at the ongoing Club World Cup have raised concerns over afternoon kick-off times at the 2026 World Cup, as the expanded tournament poses logistical challenges for the organisers.
A heatwave across the United States saw Borussia Dortmund players face South Korea's Ulsan HD in Cincinnati on June 25, with temperatures exceeding 32.2 deg C with the kick-off at 3pm local time.
Players took advantage of Fifa's once-per-half cooling breaks at games this week while Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca told reporters it was "impossible" to organise regular training sessions in the afternoons in sweltering Philadelphia.
Global players' union Fifpro said the conditions should "serve as a wake-up call".
"As climate change is making extreme weather conditions, including dangerous heat, an increasingly urgent issue for everyone in the football industry, the risk posed by kick-offs in very high temperatures is real and growing," a Fifpro spokesperson told Reuters.
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