Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 3:10:25 GMT -5
European football is still on the warpath with the Super League project. The initiative presented by A Sports Management, the promoter of the competition project led by Bernd Reichart, has not convinced fans on the continent.
Aficiones Unidas, one of the most important football fan associ Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data ations in Spain, points out in a statement that they reject “closed or semi-closed competitions” and emphasize that they are totally against “ideas of rich (teams) to be richer.” . Furthermore, they point out that they are in favor of “any team being able to reach the top in European football.”
The FSE (Football Supporters Europe), the largest association of football fans at European level, expresses the same line, stating that fans remain “united in their firm opposition to any Super League proposal, regardless of how it is presented.” , since A continues to “cheat” with the latest version of it because the objective “remains to ensure that a select few clubs receive the relative certainty of playing European football each year, as well as the income that this would entail.”
Likewise, they emphasize that "participation in European club competitions is and must always be based % on the sporting merits of each season , without exception."
In this regard, meritocracy is one of the most controversial aspects and one that brings together the most negative consensus among the European football ecosystem. The new version of the project, which would have teams, a format very similar to the one presented in by the ECA, the European club association, and rejected in its entirety, divides the competition into three categories (Star, Golden, Blue). But only in one of them, the Blue, that is, the third category, would the national leagues take center stage given that it would be the one in which only new clubs from all the national championships could become part of the Super League.
NEW FORMAT
The new Super League format that A exposed just after the CJEU ruling does not convince the clubs either. The main criticism is once again the “closed” format that limits the sporting possibilities of the most modest clubs.
This was indicated, for example, by the president of UD Las Palmas, Patricio Viñayo, who in statements reported by the media Canarias says that “things will remain the same because it is the clubs that could form that Super League that do not want to be part.” her. "It is one thing that FIFA and UEFA cannot prohibit it and quite another that it has been legitimized."
«For a club with the profile of UD Las Palmas it would be a degradation that would end up practically converting it into amateur football. This club was born out of the vocation to participate in the National League. The Super League would degrade the national leagues for the benefit of twenty European clubs that would never be ours. The euphoria of a promotion and the drama of a relegation would disappear. Aspirations and challenges would disappear. It is a culture different from the European one, rejected by the fans," he commented.
Aficiones Unidas, one of the most important football fan associ Chinese Overseas Asia Number Data ations in Spain, points out in a statement that they reject “closed or semi-closed competitions” and emphasize that they are totally against “ideas of rich (teams) to be richer.” . Furthermore, they point out that they are in favor of “any team being able to reach the top in European football.”
The FSE (Football Supporters Europe), the largest association of football fans at European level, expresses the same line, stating that fans remain “united in their firm opposition to any Super League proposal, regardless of how it is presented.” , since A continues to “cheat” with the latest version of it because the objective “remains to ensure that a select few clubs receive the relative certainty of playing European football each year, as well as the income that this would entail.”
Likewise, they emphasize that "participation in European club competitions is and must always be based % on the sporting merits of each season , without exception."
In this regard, meritocracy is one of the most controversial aspects and one that brings together the most negative consensus among the European football ecosystem. The new version of the project, which would have teams, a format very similar to the one presented in by the ECA, the European club association, and rejected in its entirety, divides the competition into three categories (Star, Golden, Blue). But only in one of them, the Blue, that is, the third category, would the national leagues take center stage given that it would be the one in which only new clubs from all the national championships could become part of the Super League.
NEW FORMAT
The new Super League format that A exposed just after the CJEU ruling does not convince the clubs either. The main criticism is once again the “closed” format that limits the sporting possibilities of the most modest clubs.
This was indicated, for example, by the president of UD Las Palmas, Patricio Viñayo, who in statements reported by the media Canarias says that “things will remain the same because it is the clubs that could form that Super League that do not want to be part.” her. "It is one thing that FIFA and UEFA cannot prohibit it and quite another that it has been legitimized."
«For a club with the profile of UD Las Palmas it would be a degradation that would end up practically converting it into amateur football. This club was born out of the vocation to participate in the National League. The Super League would degrade the national leagues for the benefit of twenty European clubs that would never be ours. The euphoria of a promotion and the drama of a relegation would disappear. Aspirations and challenges would disappear. It is a culture different from the European one, rejected by the fans," he commented.