The European Super League

In the night of 18st of April in 2021, 12 of the strongest team of Europe created a new league for contrasting the Champions League. One of the founder Florentino Perez said “We are doing this for saving the football, the new idea of the Champions League can’t save it. We lost 400 million in two years; we want to play better matches to attract new investors to gain what we lose. The football is slowly losing interest because there are not good matches to watch.” But how it’s made this Super League? We have 15 teams called founder who always are in the league and 5 teams who enter in the League by sporting merit. Then this 20 teams will be separated in two other minor leagues composed by 10 teams, who will face each other, and the first four will go to the knockout stages. The 12 teams that accepted this project are:

6 English clubs (Manchester City, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal)

3 Italian clubs (Juventus, Milan, Inter Milan)

3 Spanish clubs (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atlético Madrid).

This teams by only entering in this League will receive by the sponsor JPMorgan 490 million for the transfer market. Obviously, this resulted a lot of protests and discontent between the fans calling it the “The death of Football”, and obviously the UEFA and FIFA, in particular the CEO of UEFA Aleksander Čeferin attacked this project saying that is only for economic reason and for the money and he threatened this 12 clubs penalising them not only economically, by imposing a fine of 1 billion of euros, but in the Champions league and in their national league by excluding them. Čeferin also said that the player that plays in the European Super League will not play the European cup and the World Cup. A lot of player and managers commented the idea of this European Super League saying that this idea is stupid, because it goes against the idea of football in general, some people said on the social “Football, sport created by the poor and stolen by the rich”. But there are some important teams that refused the request to join the European Super League, like Bayern Monaco, Borussia Dortmund and Leipzig in Germany, PSG in France, Rome in Italy and Porto in Portugal. This project however lasted 48 hours because all the 6 English team have left the League because all the fans were going against their teams, on social media and in the streets, like Chelsea bus was stopped before going a game in the Premier League because all the fans in the streets was blocking it. Then Atletico Madrid and Inter Milan and Milan left, leaving only 3 teams in the Super League. Florentino Perez however said that this project is only in stand-by, and by the word said by the 3 President left they will try again in the future to form this European Super League.

Simone Ciampanella, Giorgio Giacomini,
Filippo Stancampiano, Federico Ottavietti,
classe 3BL