The legal services of the Spanish state have sent a letter to the General Court of the European Union to affirm the government's opposition to the European Super League project, the Spanish Supreme Sports Council (CSD) told AFP on Tuesday.
Spain officially specifies its position and "considers that, through dialogue, it is possible to reflect on the improvement of competitions but always within the framework of the already existing structures", specified sources at the CSD, the equivalent of Ministry of Sports in France.
The Spanish state thus takes a stand in favor of UEFA in the dispute between it and the last three clubs which remain attached to the European Super League project: Juventus, but above all the two heavyweights of the Spanish championship, the FC Barcelona and Real Madrid.
The "Twelve Salopards" are now only three
In April, these three behemoths of European football announced, along with nine other clubs, the creation of a Super League, a lucrative and private competition based on the principle of a closed championship, and doomed to supplant the Champions League.
At the end of September, UEFA decided to cancel all disciplinary proceedings against those who were once called the “Twelve Bitches”.
The nine clubs which had officially left the project (Tottenham, Arsenal, Man City, Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Atletico de Madrid, Inter and AC Milan), but also the last three mutineers who were still attached to the project (Real, Juve and Barça), which UEFA threatened to exclude from European competitions.
A Madrid commercial court had asked UEFA on July 1 to “annul” what it considered to be a “disguised sanction” against the same nine clubs.
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