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Gil Mar\u00edn shared the panel with Javier G\u00f3mez, LaLiga<\/a>\u2019s corporate general director, and Maheta Molango, president of the English players\u2019 union. Speaking as a member of UEFA\u2019s Executive Committee representing European clubs, he said he regularly puts forward the same idea in that forum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n As Mundo Deportivo report<\/a>, the mechanism would work by having a coach told that, out of the 38 Liga fixtures, a given player is only available for 31 or 32, leaving the club to manage the rest of the squad accordingly. It is a specific, individual-availability cap rather than a reduction in the total number of fixtures a club plays across the season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gil Mar\u00edn framed fixture volume as one of modern football\u2019s central problems, tying it to a broader shift in how the game is run. He argued that football has become fully professionalised after an earlier era of amateur management, crediting LaLiga\u2019s regulatory framework with driving the sector\u2019s growth \u2014 growth that has taken Atl\u00e9tico past \u20ac500 million in revenue<\/a> and through 14 consecutive Champions League group-stage qualifications under Diego Simeone.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Explaining his rationale, Gil Mar\u00edn pointed to the financial incentives driving UEFA and FIFA to keep adding fixtures, while insisting that equilibrium is needed, particularly for the biggest clubs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cUEFA y FIFA quieren m\u00e1s partidos porque da m\u00e1s dinero y m\u00e1s poder, y el poder te consolida y te garantiza la perpetuidad. Debemos buscar un punto de equilibrio que es esencial, sobre todo, para los clubes grandes\u201d, explic\u00f3 el directivo colchonero.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Whether UEFA moves toward adopting anything resembling Gil Mar\u00edn\u2019s individual-availability cap remains an open question, but his repeated advocacy for it inside the Executive Committee signals that calendar reform will keep surfacing in club-versus-governing-body discussions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n