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  • EDUARDO J. CASTELAO

    @EJCASTELAO

    Madrid

Updated Monday, 19April2021-22: 30

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Last Thursday the phone of one of the 12 managers who has put his team in the Super League project rang.

"You have to sign today," they told him.

"Why the rush?" He asked.

And on the other end of the receiver, a firm voice: "We have to make it public before Monday, because they keep laughing at us."

"These" are

Aleksander Ceferin

and the organization he presides over, UEFA.

Days before it had been made public that on Monday (yesterday) the new format of the Champions would be announced, at the

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