Good faith or self-persuasion?

The day after a decision by the Advocate General of the European Court of Justice in favor of UEFA, which threatens to sanction future participants, Super League promoter Bernd Reichart assured that the project was not at all buried.

"The Super League is not dead, far from it, it is very much alive," said Friday from Madrid the boss of A22, a company that defends the interests of this competition.

He was accompanied for the occasion by the presidents of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, and Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta.

Launched with fanfare in April 2021, this private and semi-closed competition project competing with the Champions League collapsed in just 48 hours in the face of the fury of many supporters and the threat of political measures, before resurfacing in mid-October at the time the launch of the A22 company.

This structure says it wants to open “a dialogue” on the future of European club football by meeting each of its players.

Comparison with the Bosman judgment

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice, however, estimated on Thursday that Super League clubs could develop their own competition "outside the ecosystem of UEFA and Fifa" but could not simultaneously "continue to participate competitions organized by Fifa and Uefa without the prior authorization of the said federations”.

“It is a non-binding opinion, estimated Bernd Reichart.

We will continue to work until judgment.

We continue to believe that UEFA cannot be both judge and party, both the organizer who regulates the competition and who regulates access to the market.

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The Court of Justice “recognized that anyone could organize competitions, specified Luis Alonso, of the firm Clifford Chance which represents A22.

UEFA and Fifa do not have the exclusive right to organize competitions”.

Before adding: “The Bosman affair has enshrined the free movement of workers in professional sport and I am convinced that the Super League will enshrine free competition in professional sport.

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