The European leagues continue their crusade against the Super League project sponsored by Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Juventus. This Friday, at the end of the 46th General Assembly of european leagues to be held in Prague, this association issued a statement in which, without mentioning the Super League, they reiterated their commitment to the current model of national competitions, with ascent and descent.
Naa joint declaration signed by the 40 professional leagues that make up the group, they show their “unconditional support” for european football pyramidurging “all European stakeholders to adopt” the “sacred principles“, as they are called in the statement.
guiding principles’open competitions with promotion and relegation only at the national championship level’; a classification system for European competitions based on ‘sa merit in sports by annual classification from national competitions’; a ‘fair and balanced’ economic distribution that supports the development of sport at its grassroots level; ‘a structure of good governance and dialogue involving key stakeholders’; and reject ‘organizations with just to make money’ to government bodies.
The communiqué concludes by saying that ‘soccer is more of a business and more of a consumer product. It is a social benefit’. And he claims ‘to our colleagues who are also an interested party in football at that continental level pledge to uphold the aforementioned principles in this statement’.
The statement is supported by UEFA, ECA, Fifpro and FSE, the association that brings together fans from across the continent.
Source: La Verdad
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