Javier Tebas, boss of the Spanish league association, warns: The new format of the Champions League will deepen the gap between large and smaller football clubs. And he explains why Real President Florentino Pérez wants to drive him out of office.
The Champions League starts in its playoffs on Tuesday, including with the top duel between two clubs at least state -bearing clubs. Manchester City, the English champion financed by the United Arab Emirates, meets Champions League defender Real Madrid, the most important figurehead of Spain. Reason to talk to Javier Tebas, 62, about the health of European football. The head of the Spanish league association “La Liga” blows an aura of the loyalty to the principles: Although he is considered a sympathizer of Real Madrid, he is one of the few Spaniards who dare to publicly face the powerful real president Florentino Pérez. In the course of the fight against the Super League proclaimed by Pérez, he was firmly on the side of the UEFA in 2021; Around a year after moving into the Executive Committee of the European Football Union, he became “maybe the first and only one who has ever resigned from such a post”, as he said to the SZ in Hamburg. But he mentioned that, with a shelmish smile on his lips, only on the edge.
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