Uefa vs Super League battle : ethics or interests ?

All past week, was punctuated by the sling led by Uefa and its president, Slovenian Aleksander CÉFÉRIN against the plan to create a closed league, with the multiplier effects of the sinews of war, between twelve big clubs of the old continent, looking for a breath of fresh air and a lifeline, in the face of dwindling financial resources, aggravated by the coronavirus pandemic. The apex body of European football has blown vigorously on the embers, supported in its approach by FIFA and its president, Gianni INFANTINO, probably the most politically sharp man, that we have ever had in this position, since the creation of this institution whose strong influence is no longer to be demonstrated. For one of those rare times, the two organizations that often did not pull in the same direction, are on the same frequency, that of their hierarchical supremacy over clubs, be they mastodons. The speech is firm and clear, to fall into the ranks or receive the sledgehammer. To their unexpected help, the spectacular rise in the niche of fans of English clubs, players and coaches, who have pushed the cursor of their outrage and radical disapproval to its ceiling. Scalded, nine of the twelve clubs have retracted, except FC Barcelona, Juventus and the bridgehead of the Super League, Real Madrid, who in the background, persist and sign on the need to create such a competition in the future, if we do not want to see professional football clubs die their beautiful deaths.

More, to analysis, the speech is strictly not the same. Fans and direct actors such as players and coaches highlight the values ​​of sport, the story, the need to preserve a model that transcends time and generations. L’Uefa, who launched a new Champions League format for 2024, with more matches and more teams, stands for its dominant position and wants to secure a monopoly on the control of operations by emphasizing its will to preserve fairness and equality for all its members.. This episode of the creation of the Super League has above all shown that it is the wolf who cries wolf, because Uefa is indignant and offended at not being associated with the Super League project, as the direct actors realize that their opinion does not count for Nyon, which has always decided alone the competitions which overload the calendars and cause damage to the health of the players taken care of by the clubs, their employer. The Super League just shoved Uefa into its vast comfort zone, just like to say, that from now on, it will be difficult to milk the cow's milk represented by clubs with high sporting and commercial value without them.

In all cases, between the purists and the supporters of mercantilism, the debate remains open as to the very future of football and sport as a whole, because the Super League only set the tone.

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