Something she says the players already deal with, the congestion of the calendar.

The men's World Cup to 48 teams, they're doing the same with the women's World Cup in 2031.

So there'll only be one more 32-team women's World Cup and then it goes to 48.

And they're talking about 64.

They've added in club competitions.

I mean, in women's there's the champions cup every year now there's a club world cup with 16 teams supposed to start in 2028 and you know in amongst all that the professional leagues need to be able to create a regular sellable schedule of fixtures that will bring in enough broadcast dollars and sponsorship dollars so that the the women players can actually become truly professional and i think You know, the ever-expanding FIFA calendar is actually an existential threat to the proper professionalisation of women's football.

issue needs to be looked through the lens of competition law and through the lens of ordinary business practice.

This conflict of interest that FIFA has is already the subject of a complaint at the European Commission on competition grounds.