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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - According to Axel Hellmann, CEO of Frankfurter Eintracht, the overall picture of top European football has been "catastrophic" in the past few days. You have to be “amazed at the unprofessionality with which the clubs that initiated the Super League proceeded,” criticized the lawyer in an interview with the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (Saturday), but also put into perspective: “The German clubs, above all Bayern and Dortmund, I would like to explicitly exclude, which showed a clarity that was important and that will also be good for the Bundesliga internationally. "
He would have suspected, said Hellmann about the miserably failed Super League project, “that full professionals in this area have a precise and well-thought-out plan beforehand, but I have to say that the considerations that have been entrenched in people's minds for years are spontaneously implemented in order to anticipate the decision of UEFA regarding the reforms, "said the 49-year-old and emphasized:" It was about the purely monetary self-interests of the clubs and club owners. "
Hellmann also criticized the reform of the Champions League by UEFA, which is to take effect from 2024.
“What bothers me most about this reform is not so much that you switch to a table of 36, you can still understand that.
But if there is the path of non-athletic qualification, i.e. access via coefficients for historically achieved achievements or wild cards, then that is the entry into a "closed shop", said Hellmann, who has been a board member of Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG since June 2012 .
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Portrait of Axel Hellmann at Eintracht Fußball AG
Interview with Axel Hellmann (payment barrier)