Recently, there have been turmoil in international football, especially in European football. After the outbreak of the Crisis in Ukraine, UEFA and FIFA announced sanctions against Russian football, which caused an uproar in world football for a time; just as UEFA was putting out fires everywhere, the European Super League, which had disappeared, jumped out again...
The "European Super League" is still in operation
The initial buzz came from Spain, and then confirmed by the Italian veteran sports media "Milan Sport" that the twelve clubs that originally announced their support for the European Super League were basically not dead-hearted, including Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barca, Atletico, Milan, Inter and Juve, who will still enter the new version of the European Super League as the founding team, and only Tottenham and Arsenal in North London are not planned.
What's more, the most much-maligned "founding teams are always eligible" clause in the original version of the Premier League plan was removed, and the entire league became an open promotion and relegation league with a total of 40 teams in two classes. At present, this plan is not directly public, but the European Premier League has submitted a document to the European Union entitled "Rethinking the Future of European Football", which mentions many concepts that clearly state that this is a revised plan for UEFA's European competitions and will be based on national leagues.
Subsequently, The president of Juve Agnelli, one of the three clubs at the core of the European Super League, Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juve, insisted at the football summit organized by the Financial Times that he would continue to implement the European Premier League plan: "It has not failed. The Premier League is the collective outcome of twelve teams, not individuals. Twelve teams signed a 120-page contract that still works for eleven of them today. ”
UEFA authority is called into question
Obviously, the European Super League's calculation is to follow the upper road of the European Union. Legally speaking, UEFA does not actually prohibit club teams from giving up the power of the Champions League and Europa League to switch to the European Super League – strictly speaking, in fact, international football governing bodies, including UEFA and FIFA, have caused controversy in many matters.
In the matter of banning Russian teams from participating, there are also many voices questioning UEFA and FIFA. However, this voice does not seem to be valued by the so-called football elite.
First, Chelsea boss Abramovich was "forced" to sell Chelsea; then the Fifa International Federation of Professional Footballers made a request to FIFA to allow foreign players playing in Russia to be freely terminated; and finally, the Ukrainian Football Association proposed that the current players have no intention of fighting, hoping to postpone the World Cup qualifiers with Scotland...
On Thursday, the Russian Football Federation announced that it had filed a complaint with the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, requesting the reinstatement of all men's and women's national teams in Russia to participate in all types of football competitions, including the Qatar World Cup qualifiers, as well as compensation for possible losses to the Russian Football Federation.
At this time, the European Super League jumped out to launch a challenge, and this timing is not estimated to be random. Originally, when the European Super League was proposed, the whole of Europe and even the world was not optimistic, but after a series of recent moves by UEFA and FIFA, the public opinion environment of the outside world seems to be quietly changing, from "UEFA will make money and distribute it to countries" to "UEFA does this who can still believe in their fair competition".
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