Javier Tebas He attended the sports gala organized by ‘AS’ newspaper last night. This was one of his first official tasks after his new election as president of the employers’ association. Half seriously, half jokingly, he commented that his family “don’t congratulate me” in addition to emphasizing again that it will be his last term in charge of the clubs: “It was a topic to finish several projects, but I hope it is the last time.”
But the star topic revolves around the decision that this Thursday, December 21, will be announced by the Superior Court of Justice of the European Union. And he is clear that he will not be clear about the competition of Super League who leads Real Madrid: “No, the more campaign this weekend, the more they say and do the story; I’m clear it won’t be as they say, it won’t be as clear. I think. They say “We estimate the Super League…, it’s not really going to be like that. But we’re used to Florentino Pérez not losing.”
In fact, he is very clear that at the moment this competition is not possible in the short or medium term: “Totally impossible. First because it is not going to be legally the path that is going to take. And then, it is included. in UEFA Statutes and if anyone If you want to organize a competition, you have to request it two years in advance, a mandatory procedure. But I don’t see many clubs as they say, at the moment the English will not be there, and I didn’t see that they moved any issue about the rights of the audiovisual organization. I don’t think so. I don’t see it in two years, or in four, six or eight.
Furthermore, he was clear that at the moment “football does not need the Super League. On the contrary, it needs the national leagues to continue to grow, and in European formats. The national leagues are vertical, with promotion and relegation. International competitions are horizontal but it is accessible through national leagues. Your performance in the European classifications does not guarantee your classification for the next season. What they are building in this new format and that’s why I call it a liar’s Super League.”
Under this context, the president of the employers’ association took advantage of the danger that these types of competitions, like all those led by FIFA, endanger the national leagues and all those who work around them : “Everything that is happening in the ecosystem of club football. We have breakfast with the Club World Cup, the Intercontinental Cup, some of the Super League, the reforms of the Champions format… without thinking about the national leagues and that many club players who do not play these tournaments “And this may cause a decrease in domestic competition and therefore the salaries of players will decrease, jobs will disappear. And we don’t think about it.”
Protect families and jobs
Players, coaches of teams that do not participate in these competitions, can be seriously harmed in the opinion of Javier Tebas: “When I read the note of FIFPRO, it is good to think about the health of the athletes and it is true. that it affects. But we also have to think about the rights of these players who don’t come to these competitions and it can cause a loss of economic capacity and national leagues. And that’s the big problem. We create competitions and more competition for a few years now. And that’s not the problem”. To which he added that “on the sports side of the bar I do a lot of interesting competitions at five in the morning. We’re in an industry and we have to protect families and the jobs that support them. And everyone doesn’t defending these competitions.”
Javier Tebas ended up defending the Spanish competition against the Premier League again. He is clear that “the best in economic and sports balance is the Spanish team, when it goes wrong. We have passed four teams from LaLIga in the Champions League and only two from the Premier. And as the top seeds. It has been a long time since this has happened. produce… Then, at a sporting level we are better. But we don’t have to look at one year, in the past I said that too. The sporting issue must be looked at with a perspective of five to ten years, and during this period the European titles are 60% for Spanish teams”.
Source: La Verdad
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