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Ceferin against Super League

A EUROPEAN Super League must not be allowed to happen and the gap between rich clubs and the rest must stop growing, UEFA presidential candidates Aleksander Ceferin said yesterday.

UEFA last month announced changes to its flagship Champions League competition, opening up more places to teams from Spain, England, Germany and Italy and cutting those allocated to the rest. It also increased suspicion that the big clubs ultimately wanted to form a breakaway Super League.

“First of all, we will do everything that Super League never happens,” Ceferin, a Slovenian lawyer, said.

“I’m not sure if the clubs want a Super League, they are just pushing it with threats...and they succeeded.”

“Those changes are clearly not in favour of small and mid-sized associations,” he said.

“The process was not good. The clubs didn’t know anything about it and that should be changed in the future.”




 

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