The conflict of European football for the creation of the
Super League
does not stop and moved this Friday to the center of the city of
Madrid
.
In the middle of the
World Cup in Qatar
, the morning served to create even more differences between the protagonists of a war that seems not to see its end.
The
Super League trench was located at Paseo de la Castellana 110, in the auditorium of the
Clifford Chance
law firm
where
A22 Sports Management
, the company that advises the project made up of
Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus
, gave a conference with the title "
The future of football in the European Union
: the case of the Super League".
José Ángel
Sánchez
, general director of
Real Madrid
, was going to attend
it, but he was absent at the last minute.
Barely two kilometers away, at number 50 Diego de León street, headquarters of the
CEOE
,
Javier Tebas
, president of
LaLiga
, led a talk under the slogan "
The impact of the European Super League and the reduction of income in LaLiga
".
The "future" of football against "the reduction of income".
The first event took place at ten in the morning and the second at one in the afternoon, a
surreal but perfect counter
-programming that allowed the media to go to both, as if both organizations, theoretically enemies, had put themselves on the side. Agreement to carry out a mock discussion of arguments with the city of Madrid as a witness.
"We don't want to be governed"
On Friday in Madrid, he left several issues on the table, but he highlighted a reality:
there is no possible coexistence
between the Super League project and the League (which supports UEFA and FIFA) and the debate is not so much about the format of competitions but for something even more important: who rules in European football.
That, and no other, make no mistake, is the
main point of conflict
.
"UEFA and FIFA live off the sweat of the clubs, which are not involved in the future.
The clubs must manage their own destiny
," said
Bernd Reichart
,
CEO of A22
and, for a few weeks, the visible head of the project the Super League.
A few hours later,
Javier Tebas answered him
, defining the origin of the conflict between the two parties: "We don't want them to govern us. They want to rule, put European football in the hands of a few. It is a debate on the governance of European football and The Super League is the excuse.
It is an ideological concept that was born in the year 2000, inspired by Florentino Pérez
, who wants the big clubs to rule football. And since then they have been putting a lot of pressure on it to seize it We know what they're looking for and that's why we're at odds."
"The Super League will be 100% meritocratic"
The president of LaLiga presented a report at the CEOE headquarters on the impact that the Super League model would have on European football and especially on Spanish football.
A somewhat surprising explanation because from A22 they were in charge of insisting in their event that the Super League model "
had no defined format
".
"We want dialogue.
It would be cynical to talk about a format
and some ideas that we don't have," Reichart said.
However, some of the guidelines of the Super League have slipped in recent months: a league with fixed teams and a promotion-relegation format.
Still, Reichart insists: "The Super League
will be 100% meritocratic
."
Two kilometers away, Tebas accused A22 of being "
the mere expression of three clubs (Madrid, Barça and Juventus) and of one person: Florentino Pérez
", and described the reasons for the Super League not counting his project: "They do not count the model because if they tell it, they won't want it. It's a ruin. They say it's meritocratic to sell it better, but it's not true. They want to change the access model to European football and it
will be a ruin for all the leagues
."
In addition, the president of the League denounced "the incredible campaign of media intoxication from A22" and asked "not to treat us as naive, because it makes me feel worse."
"
I know what Florentino Pérez thinks
, and it is the same as he thought in the year 2000. They talk under the table about the model."
On December 15, turning point
The conflict will have a new
turning point
on
December 15
, when the general counsel of the
Court of Justice of the European Union
gives his non-binding point of view on the judicial process in which, according to A22, "it is not judging the Super League, but the
monopoly position of UEFA and FIFA
".
The Super League advisory firm calls for there not to be just one single body responsible for organizing the competitions and has given other sports, such as cycling or tennis, as examples.
That is what they expect the lawyer to comment, although still without legal consequences for the future of the conflict.
European football still awaits many
battles
in the offices, many conferences and many accusations between its protagonists before passing sentence.
And Thebes has already warned: "
A message for Bernd (Reichart). Be prepared because 10 minutes after they speak we will be there answering
. The Super League is not going to win. We are going to fight and we are going to win it".
Well that, more battle.
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