Frenkie de Jong put the shout to heaven in the hours before the start of the Nations League about the accumulation of matches and the FC Barcelona midfielder pointed directly to De Telegraaf on UEFA’s interests for the new Champions League format “so that it can make more money”. Asked about this complaint by NOSa reference media outlet in the Netherlands, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin did not hesitate to respond to De Jong: “Find out”.
Ceferin denied that UEFA was chasing “more money” by uploading the calendar. “Before talking about it, you should inform yourself. The money goes directly to the associations for the development of football. It does not go to UEFA and not to me personally,” he said. “I often try to explain it, but many, including De Jong, do not listen carefully,” Ceferin continued. “UEFA returns 97 percent of its income to football itself. That’s why there are also young and talented players in the Netherlands. We invest in the national federations, otherwise no player would go to the big clubs,” he argued.
Of course, Ceferin let slip that for the next editions of the Nations League it is possible that the match for third and fourth place will not be played in the future. The UEFA boss said on Friday that his body was examining it. “To be honest, I have my doubts about that match, but it is already decided. We don’t know yet, but we are really thinking about it,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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