Aleksander
Ceferin, president of UEFA, has threatened this Friday to FC
Barcelona, Real
Madrid, Juventus
from
Turin Y AC
Milan, the four founding clubs of the Super league who have not yet disengaged from what was to be the great new project of European football, with throwing them out of Champions
League if they do not abandon said competition.
“It is very clear that the clubs will have to decide if they are a Super League or if they are a European club. If they say 'we are a Super League', then they will not play the Champions League, of course … And if they are ready to do so, they can play in their own competition, “said the head of the governing body of European football in statements to 'AP'.
Real Madrid is not in danger this season
While the participation of Real
Madrid, who will play the semifinal of this edition of the Champions
League against him Chelsea, is not in danger this year, his future presence in the maximum European club competition – together with that of Barça, Juve Y Milan– could be called into question, according to the words of Ceferin: “We are still waiting for the legal analysis and then we will see, but everyone will face the consequences of their decisions, and they know it,” warned the Slovenian. “For me, it is a very different situation than there is with the clubs that admitted their mistake and said: 'We will leave the project.' The others know that I think this project is dead, but they probably don't want to believe it, ”he continued.
“On Saturday I realized that it was pure betrayal”
On the moment chosen by the 12 most powerful clubs on the European continent to announce the formation of this new competition, just one day before the UEFA Executive Committee met to approve the new format of the new Champions
League from 2024, Ceferin He assured that “the worst day was Saturday, because I realized that it was pure betrayal, that some people lied to us for years. It was quite strange because I didn't know what exactly would happen the next day. As if something was going to be announced that nobody knows what it is, ”he added.