The resurgence of an old concept
In April 2021 the plan to create a European Super League was announced by 12 of Europe’s biggest clubs, with reactions at its strongest. UEFA immediately condemned the project as a direct attack on the monopoly of its flagship competition: the UEFA Champions League. Nevertheless, the decisive opposition came from the fans themselves all over Europe. Was this a victory for UEFA, which was thus attacked by clubs that wanted to dissent? Not so sure, as evidenced by the statements made at the time by Philippe Piat and Sylvain Kastendeuch, co-presidents of the French National Union of Professional Footballers (UNFP): “The Super League fiasco is not the victory of the UEFA Champions League. The setback suffered by the twelve dissident [clubs] is not the success of UEFA either; the same one that, faced with the threats and the paroxysm of football business, for lack of...
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