Two of those friendlies were just tournament warm up games.
I think it's more time together when trying to build a squad for the summer tournaments that the majority love.
If the only breaks are to play qualification games for those tournaments then that's only 8-10 games in two years.
If you drop the break to having them play only one game per camp then the breaks will still be two weeks in length and it doesn't give many opportunities to try things.
