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.