In the last few days there has been a sensational impact on the world of sport and in particular on the world of football. In a few hours, 12 clubs founded the “European Super League” and practically canceled it.
A new competition in which every year 12 teams would have played right and without a sports title. There were protests all over the world, from England to Italy, and the teams had to cancel the tournament. In the past few hours, Real Madrid’s president Florentino Perez, the main organizer of the entire event, has released important statements that are not close to the Super League, but far from it.
Here are his words to El Larguero, program on Cadena Ser: “Am I the president of Real and the Super League? No, no, I’m the president of Real Madrid. And I have to say that’s okay. Last night was one very long night, we were together until 1 a.m.
I am sad and disappointed. We have been working on this Super League project for three years to fight the economic situation we are going through. La Liga is untouchable, where you have to earn some money in the middle of the week and the Champions League format is outdated, old and interesting, only from the quarter-finals.
First, there is no interest. We’re all happy that teams from some countries can compete against great teams. But if you find yourself in a situation like this … Last season we lost 600 million between the 12 clubs in the Super League.
This format doesn’t work and the idea occurred to us to create a format in which we would play against the most important teams in Europe without showing off. We did the math and saw that a lot more money can be made.
So that the big ones don’t lose and show solidarity. All of these teams have 2 billion out of four billion fans who like football. I’ve never seen aggression like this, it was orchestrated in my opinion and it took us all by surprise.
When we got the word out, we asked for the UEFA and FIFA presidents. You didn’t answer us. In 20 years I haven’t seen this aggression in my life. Threats, insults, as if we’d killed football. “
Perez and the comparison to tennis
On this subject, Perez used tennis as a benchmark and spoke about two tennis legends, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal (among other great Real Madrid fans). Here are his strong statements: “This is a pyramid.
If there is money upstairs, and I can tell because Real Madrid is not mine and it’s not owned by its partners … If there is money upstairs, it goes downstairs. If Federer doesn’t play at the top against Nadal … Well, to see Nadal against number 80 in the ranking, people won’t go. ”
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