FIFPro: An athletes’ union that gets it right

On Thursday afternoon at World Cup play, a Uruguayan player was hit in the head, inadvertently, by the knee of another player. The player, Alvaro Pereira, lay motionless and apparently unconscious on the pitch whilst the team doctor signaled for a substitution. Pereira came to consciousness and vociferously objected to being taken out of the game. Two minutes layer, Pereira […]