Juventus President: The Super League is not a coup, it's a "cry of despair"
Juventus President Andrea Agnelli said on Friday that the Super League, which aims to create a special competition that brings together most of the big clubs in the old continent, "was never an attempted coup, but rather a cry of warning."
And the president of Juventus, one of three clubs with the two Spanish football poles, Real Madrid and Barcelona, expressed their attachment to the establishment of the Super League, in a press conference that this project, which competes with the European Champions League and presented last April by 12 English, Spanish and Italian clubs, was “a cry of despair from a system heading, consciously.” or unconsciously, towards bankruptcy.
He added, "I tried for years to change European competitions from within, because the signs of the crisis were clear even before the Corona virus pandemic."
Until last April, Agnelli was president of the European Club Association and a member of the decision-making bodies of the European Union (UEFA), before he resigned after the launch of the Super League project by 12 clubs and was aborted after 48 hours after the withdrawal of nine clubs.
With the three rebellious clubs facing European Union sanctions, Agnelli attacked the "hurtful words" and "arrogant tactics" of the continental body.
"It's not this kind of behavior that fixes football," he said, recalling that Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus remained "determined" to get the fix.
Agnelli spoke in Turin on the occasion of the departure of the club's sporting director, Fabio Paratici, after 11 years marked by nine league titles (from 2012 to 2020).
Agnelli took advantage of the opportunity to salute coach Andrea Pirlo, who was sacked after only one season at the helm of the technical management of "Bianconeri", replaced by Massimiliano Allegri, who returned to his position only two years after his departure.
"I've read a lot that this season has been a failure. But if winning two cups (the Coppa Italia and the local Super Cup) and qualifying for the Champions League (fourth place in Serie A) is a failed year, let's say we don't want it but we are ready to live it for a year From time to time”, recalling the difficulties the club faced this season due to the epidemic.
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