The super league It’s a topic that keeps bringing up the tail. On April 18, 2021 this exclusive project was officially announced outside of UEFA, designed only for the best and that will mean a new and then in European football. Now, the documentary series’The Super League: war for football‘ examines the events that took place in a few days, from April 17 to 20 of that year, which were chaotic.
Directed by the Emmy Award-winning director Jeff Zimbalist and co-produced with Connor Schellthis new docuseries has exclusive interviews with most of the great protagonists of that April 2021. Alexander Ceferin, Florentine perez, Andrea Agnelli, Joan Laporta, javier thebes either Nasser Al-Khelaifi They were some of the personalities who spoke in front of the cameras, offering a more personal perspective on what happened.
The testimony of Nasser Al-Khelafi, a great ally of UEFA
“Qatar also deserves to be in the middle of the map.” This is how Al-Khelaifi began his time in the Apple TV + series, where he qualified as a “fantastic investment“He’s done Paris Saint-Germain. The Qatari businessman became in 2021 a great ally of UEFAby rejecting the Super League offer from the start.
“It was [de que se anunciara la Superliga] Real Madrid and Florentino flew to Paris to meet me and offer me to enter the Super League. they sold it as guaranteed moneymore competitive matches, and no risk”, he revealed in his interview, where he said that on Sunday, April 18, the day when everything was officially ‘exploding’, he received a call from Ceferin, who asked him to support UEFA. .
Your answer? Very clear: “I’m a big club, but I think… I felt embarrassed, to be honest (…). We cannot kill the dreams, the hopes of the fans and the small clubs. The Super League will destroy the whole system. Our answer is very clear. We will not enter. Any format should be under the umbrella of UEFA“.
Source: La Verdad
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