Super League Surrender: Nine Teams Apologize but New Fight Looms
Nine founders of a breakaway soccer league admitted it was a mistake and agreed to pay millions in fines. But three holdouts are vowing to seek damages.
Real Madrid’s president, Florentino Pérez, the first chairman of the Super League, is continuing to fight for the project.Credit.Rodrigo Jimenez/EPA, via Shutterstock
Published May 7, 2021Updated May 8, 2021, 8:04 p.m. ET
Less than two weeks after they became partners in a European Super League that would have cast aside the structures and organizations that have underpinned soccer on the Continent for nearly a century, a group of the sport’s biggest clubs are now engaged in a new battle behind the scenes.
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How UEFA president Ceferin crushed a Super League rebellion
By ROB HARRISApril 24, 2021 GMT
LONDON (AP) A moment that prepared Aleksander Ceferin for the stresses and tensions running European football came three decades ago, in a far graver moment for the continent.
The law graduate was relaxing at his family home in Slovenia on June 25, 1991, sitting on the terrace with his parents, brother and sister and their partners when a man approached.
“He said ‘Aleksander Ceferin?’ I said ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘War has started. You go with us,’” Ceferin recalls. “It was crazy. I was shocked.”
Ceferin was conscripted just as his tiny nation, nestled between the Alps and the Adriatic Sea, declared independence from multi-ethnic Yugoslavia. The response from Belgrade was to send in forces to prevent the start of the bloody breakup of the federation.
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