Новости за 20.04.2021

By Andrew Warshaw

April 20 – Twenty-four hours after lambasting organisers of the European Super League, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin struck a still-forceful but more philosophical tone today as he summed up his annus horribilis marked by the Covid-19 pandemic that sent football behind closed doors and the creation of the breakaway grouping UEFA had tried desperately to stave off.

Addressing UEFA’s 55 member federations who were able to attend the confederation’s annual congress... Читать дальше...

By Andrew Warshaw

April 20 – Making his first public comment on the creation of the European Super League, FIFA president Gianni Infantino today urged those involved to think again or “live with the consequences.”

In an address to the UEFA Congress in Switzerland, Infantino was perhaps not as hard-hitting as other leading figures in his condemnation of the project – perhaps privately believing it might actually assist FIFA’s own Club World Cup competition –

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By Andrew Warshaw

April 20 – Faced with stinging criticism across the Continent from fans, ex-players, politicians, commentators and all the leading football stakeholders, the man driving the new European Super League has hit back by insisting the project was devised to save the game rather than destroy it.

Real Madrid president  Florentino Perez, the first of the 12 Super League clubs to break their silence in the wake of Sunday’s bombshell announcement,

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By Samindra Kunti

April 20 – British PM Boris Johnson and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have led the political clamour against the breakaway Super League by promising their governments will support attempts to halt such a competition as the backlash against the 12 breakaway clubs reached a new crescendo.

Speaking on Monday Johnson said: “We are going to look at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this doesn’t go ahead in the way that it’s currently being proposed. Читать дальше...

April 20 – Bayern Munich’s Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has  replaced Andrea Agnelli on an interim basis as the president of the European Club Association (ECA) after the Juventus owner resigned following the announcement of the new Super League plans that included his club but left most other ECA member out in the cold. 

April 20 – UEFA’s reformatted Champions League will go ahead as planned starting with the 2024/25 season. With temperatures high over the new Super League breakaway that could begin as early as this August, UEFA made it clear there would be no stopping the new formats for its club competitions after two years of consultation.

April 20 – Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven are looking to raise  €50 million in the coming months with billionaire Robert van der Wallen, a member of the supervisory board, driving the capital raise. 

April 20 – UEFA have postponed until Friday a final decision over whether they are dropping any host cities for this year’s delayed Euro 2020, with Munich, Bilbao and Dublin still in danger of being axed  if they can’t guarantee a limited number of  spectators.

April 21 – English Premier League clubs are planning a social media blackout next month in response to continued online abuse of players.