The president of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol), the Paraguayan Alejandro Domínguez, He said this Wednesday that he was not surprised that there won “common sense” when the project of a dozen big clubs to create a private and exclusive Super League was shipwrecked in Europe.
“I think it's very good that the soccer pyramid has won,” said the Paraguayan leader, who pointed out that can not play that sport “if there is no competitiveness“. Likewise, he stressed that football needs solidarity so as not to fall in the short term.”We all depend on everyone. It is an ecosystem where boys depend on the grown-ups, the great ones depend on the boys and if that nature is affected we are going to have a very big complication in the short term, “he remarked.
I know declared happy by shape like his friend, the UEFA president, Aleksander Ceferin, handled the situation emerged last week, when twelve of the most important clubs in Europe launched the project of the Super league, a private competition not recognized by your entity or by FIFA.
However, little more than 48 hours later From that announcement, the project vanished with the staggered resignation of most of the participating clubs.
The president of Conmebol spoke this Wednesday at the Carrasco International Airport, the main air terminal in Uruguay, where he witnessed the arrival of 50,000 doses of the covid-19 vaccine donated to the institution by the pharmacist china Sinovac, something that he described as a “historical” fact. There, Domínguez was with him ambassador of China in the South American country, Wang Gang, whom he thanked for this fact.
“The south american football is eternally grateful for this gesture and we will know how to value it in the right measure. We will always carry it in our memory as a historical event, as a milestone in South American football, “he said.