I have laughed at European Super League proposal, nothing else to do - Ceferin - video Dailymotion

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UEFA chief Alexander Ceferin saidhe has laughed at the proposed European Super League and how terrible the idea actually is and that is doesn't encourage competition as they claim

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00:00 We watched the so-called presentation of a company A22 and it's really for me personally

00:13 hard to decide if you should be shocked or amused by the show that we have seen.

00:22 Since it's close to Christmas I would choose the amusement, so I'm amused by it.

00:31 Especially the interesting idea is that the champions would qualify in a blue league,

00:43 which is a third-tier competition.

00:47 They clearly recognize now that this system that they presented today is even more close

00:54 than the system in 2021, which was rejected by everyone in football and even out of football.

01:03 So teams like Leicester, Girona, Atalanta, let alone smaller countries, cannot qualify

01:10 to this top-tier competition anymore.

01:15 If you call it an open competition, then of course you are wrong, at least in our opinion.

01:24 So just to summarize, first, press release is the worst part of the decision.

01:32 You have to read all the decisions.

01:35 Now we will go through the decisions and we will see if we need to strengthen the authorization

01:39 rules.

01:41 We will see if we have time to do that.

01:45 I'm so happy that we saw the presentation and that it's clear now that they are offering

01:53 a close competition, which we knew all the time, but they tried to present publicly,

01:59 it's not true.

02:00 I've seen today the press release of English supporters who call it the zombie league.

02:05 They didn't use that, they used blue league and some other colors as well.

02:12 But despite that, we will not try to stop them.

02:17 Even before, we never tried to stop them.

02:22 And we said that, even I said that publicly many times.

02:26 They can create whatever they want.

02:29 I hope that they start their fantastic competition as soon as possible with two clubs.

02:39 I hope they know what they are doing, which I'm not so sure about.

02:45 So not knowing if I would have the floor later, I wish all of you happy holidays and a fantastic

02:54 2024 and football is not for sale.

03:00 We can show that many times.

03:01 We did all together, all the football stakeholders and all the European society and nothing,

03:07 absolutely nothing can change that.

03:09 So that's from my side.

03:12 Thank you very much.

I have laughed at European Super League proposal, nothing else to do - Ceferin

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