UEFA does not want to let go of the Super League file.
The association took a new step on Tuesday in its retaliation against Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Juventus Turin by opening "disciplinary proceedings" against them.
It must be said that these three clubs still refuse to deny their aborted project of a private European tournament.
In this case, UEFA had already appointed on May 12 several "ethical and disciplinary inspectors", the equivalent of a preliminary investigation. Its control and ethics body must now establish the "potential violation of the legal framework of UEFA" committed by the three mutineers, while the other nine promoters of the Super League have escaped these proceedings in exchange for light financial penalties .
UEFA, challenged on the night of April 18 to 19 by the launch of this project, has long preferred to negotiate the surrender of the rebels rather than crack down.
But failing to obtain a general capitulation, she opted for a disciplinary response against the last three recalcitrant, without however specifying what offenses she accuses them of.
Its statutes nevertheless prohibit any "regrouping or alliance" between clubs without its authorization.
And among the range of sanctions, the heaviest for clubs are "exclusion from current and / or future competitions", as well as the "ban on all football-related activity" for managers.
Sword of Damocles
The threat of non-participation in the next Champions League therefore hovers over the three clubs still officially in the private project.
But, far from bending, Real, Barça and Juventus also replied on the legal ground: at their request, the Commercial Court of Madrid seized the European justice in mid-May to find out whether UEFA was abusing its "dominant position" by seeking to block this competing tournament.
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