The president of The league, Javier Tebasrecommended this Tuesday at Conmebol rethink together with the national leagues the organization of competitions to avoid creating an important division in economic terms between clubs that participate in international tournaments and those that do not.
“I think that Conmebol (South American Football Confederation) must change its attitude regarding the national leagues, regarding the first categories. It is a discussion that we also have in Europe,” commented Tebas in a press conference on his participation in Guayaquil ( Ecuador ) at the Pro Summit, a soccer industry congress organized by the Ecuadorian Pro League.
“The fact that so many clubs participate in continental competitions creates an economic division within national competitions between the clubs that are in them and those that don’t compete,” he said. Tebas argued that financially satisfying clubs entering international competitions at national level causes them to lose competitiveness in the medium term and “you kill your national league”.
The president of LaLiga appreciates the growth of the Ecuadorian Pro League since its creation in 2019 and hopes that they will solve their crisis with audiovisual rights as soon as possible, since the clubs recently asked to terminate the contract with GolTV, owned by Uruguayan businessman Paco Casal, for accumulated debts.
Tebas appreciates the economic control rules adopted by Liga Pro to be applied to its clubs, similar to the system followed in Spain to prevent clubs from making disproportionate and unsustainable expenses that put the permanence of the institution in danger.
In that sense, Tebas emphasized that “the anti-piracy strategy is a key factor for the growth of the Pro League.” “If they steal 85% of your debt, (the Pro League) will have a greater economic profit and the audiovisual issue will be solved immediately, and the clubs will benefit and can improve,” said Tebas.
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Also, he stressed that it is also key that national federations and professional football leagues respect each other’s powers. “The autonomy of the leagues should be full in the field of commercial and audiovisual, and in some cases also in refereeing, but not in all, and the leagues know that they will not decide on the national team, non-professional competitions. ,” added Thebes.
“In the sphere of federations, this autonomy and independence usually do not want to exist because they remove the space of power, in a relationship of vassal to the king,” he added. The highest authority of LaLiga gave the example of Uruguay, where he said that “the majority of clubs want to create a professional football league of Uruguay.” “We encourage the creation of a Uruguayan professional soccer league, but both Conmebol and the (Uruguayan) Federation have called the clubs into a chapter, because otherwise they will be angry,” he commented.
“We must understand, and many federation leaders do not understand this, that the way to grow national football is through leagues, because professional leagues are very different from associations, and have to have self- management of the clubs, which is what they pay the players, and the owners and partners risk their money, different from a federation where nobody risks anything,” he concluded.
The executive director of the Premier League, Richard Masters, also participated in the Pro Summit, which concluded this Tuesday; the president of the Pro League, Miguel Ángel Loor; and the general secretary of the World League Association (WLA), Jerome Perlemuter, as well as former Argentine soccer player Jorge Valdano.
Source: La Verdad
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