In a joint statement, the three clubs that maintain the European Super League project (Barcelona, Juventus and Real Madrid) rejected the “coercion” exercised by UEFA, which on Tuesday announced the opening of a disciplinary file against these teams for not having resigned. to that tournament almost closed.
The clubs “want to express their most absolute rejection of the insistent coercion that UEFA has been maintaining against three of the largest institutions in the history of football,” the entities denounced this Wednesday, in a statement published at the same time on their respective websites.
“Likewise, this attitude is alarming in flagrant breach of the decision of the courts of justice, which have already clearly ruled warning UEFA to refrain from taking any action against the founding clubs of the Super League while the judicial procedure is being processed” , add your text.
The reaction of these three clubs comes less than 24 hours after UEFA announced a “disciplinary process” for “potential violation of the UEFA legal framework” by promoting, together with nine other European clubs, a European Super League that would compete directly with the Champions League, the star tournament of the European instance.
A process that the three affected describe as “incomprehensible” and that “directly undermines the rule of law that we citizens of the European Union have democratically built.”
With the announcement in the early morning of April 19 of their own private Super League, the 12 promoters (the most important in England, Spain and Italy) caused an earthquake in European football, even threatening the existence of UEFA.
The progressive withdrawal of the six English participants (Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham) just 48 hours after the launch of the new tournament, made the project fail, from which Atlético de Madrid, Inter Milan subsequently withdrew. and AC Milan.
These nine clubs agreed together to pay 15 million euros as a fine and to forfeit 5% of their UEFA income for one season.
By not having renounced the project, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus could be sanctioned with the “exclusion of competitions in progress and / or future competitions”, as well as the prohibition of any activity related to football “for their leaders. AFP (HN)