Melbourne Victory coach Kevin Muscat has wasted no time teeing off at Football Federation Australia this season, accusing the games governing body of putting safety behind other considerations when fixturing.Victory will need to play three matches in 12 days to start their season due to International Champions Cup and FFA Cup commitments.Glamour friendlies with Italian giants Juventus at the MCG on July 23 and Atletico Madrid on July 31 in Geelong await Victory.Their round of 32 FFA Cup tie follows three days after, made more difficult after being drawn away to Newcastle Jets.Given Muscat is in the middle of a squad overhaul and wont have his usual compliment of players available to him, the championship-winning coach declared the situation far from ideal.He said Victory fans would be the losers, deprived of seeing their best team in at least one of the fixtures.Were the only team playing in the ICC yet weve got to play an FFA Cup game three days after Atletico, he said.Unfortunately somethings got to give because we wont be able to play our strongest team for the three games.I apologise now to our members and fans if we dont have our strongest team available for the Atletico game or the FFA Cup game.I understand that theres many other contributing factors to scheduling the three games ... TV, you name it and somewhere around seventh or eighth is player safety.Its unfortunate that safety is the last one thats taken seriously.While Victory was party to the decision to schedule their Atletico date in the middle of the FFA Cup window, the club believes it had a case to play the Round of 32 match a week later when Sydney FC, Brisbane and Perth Glory are in action.An FFA spokesperson said the league needed to juggle competing factors.FFA considers a wide range of factors when scheduling which games are played on the scheduled match dates for the Westfield FFA Cup, a statement read.The three-day break between matches is one of the important factors considered.The A-League season begins in October.Jordan Crawford Pelicans Jersey . Malkin got tangled up with Detroits Luke Glendening early in the third period and his left skate took the brunt of collision with the boards behind Pittsburghs net. Anthony Davis Jersey . They had already blown a double-digit lead, fans were hitting the exits, and a long seven-game road trip waited at the end. https://www.pelicanslockerroom.com/Derrick-Favors-City-Edition-Jersey/ . There was no hesitation from the 40th-ranked Pospisil, from Vernon, B.C., who admitted that he cut back on his training sessions over the last few days to conserve energy as the long ATP season finishes next week at the Paris Masters. Josh Gray Pelicans Jersey . The 17-year-old native of Marystown, N.L., pulled out of Skate Canada International last month in Saint John, N.B., with the same problem. Jahlil Okafor Jersey . Ouellette, from Montreal, already has three Olympic gold medals since joining the team in 1999. ' ' '
