Berlin (DPA)
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has said European football should remain open to all clubs, amid speculation about the breakaway European Super League.
Despite the withdrawal of most of the founding members of the European Super League, after popular and political pressures, coinciding with widespread criticism that accompanied the announcement of the establishment of the tournament last April, Real Madrid, Barcelona, and Juventus of Italy continued to support the tournament.
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, who was appointed chairman of the European Super League board, continued his call for the major clubs in Europe to secede from UEFA, and confirmed last June that the tournament “still exists.”
Real Madrid star Toni Kroos supported his president, Perez, and recently said: “The European Super League should have been in operation a long time ago.”
But Ceferin expressed his confidence in the continuation of the current structure of continental football, on the sidelines of the International Conference on Football Talks in Lisbon.
He explained: “Football will certainly always remain open in our competition, the essence of European football, which is considered the strongest in the world, is that it is open.”
“What these people who think that only the elite plays football do not understand, that the situation would be much worse if not everyone was competing,” he added.
He explained: “Last season we saw the Moldovan Sheriff Tiraspol win in Madrid against Real. If my Slovenian team, with a budget of two million euros, beat Tottenham, this is the essence of football, it is part of our culture, it is part of our history and it will never change.”
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