The Spanish players’ association AFE is going to install defibrillators in each stadium of the Spanish third division. And the national team will help the union supplying other clubs with the same equipment.

The Austrian players’ association VdF has vowed to establish a period-of-rest rule in the collective bargaining agreement, to prevent footballers from an overload of matches, as the players of Rapid Wien are experiencing.

Football players in Brazil no longer have to play in intense heat. A judge has forbidden matches to be played when the temperature exceeds 35 degrees Celsius. The players’ union had requested the judge to take action.