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Chairman Perez R. Madrid “Financial crisis with Corona 19…I need to raise profits through high-quality games
“It’s not big club egoism…I’ll earn more and invest more.”
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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Ahn Hong-seok = Florentino Peres Real Madrid (Spain) chairman, who was the first head of the European Super League (ESL), is the only ESL to save the football world in financial crisis due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19). He said it was a roadblock.
On the 20th (Korean time), Chairman Peres appeared on the Spanish axis and professional TV program’El Chiringito’ and explained the background in which Real Madrid and other European’Big Clubs’ launched ESL.
President Perez mentioned several times that the financial crisis in Europe’s big clubs was intensifying due to Corona 19.
“The major clubs in Spain, Italy and England want to find a solution to the fiscal crisis,” he said. “We, Real Madrid, have lost a lot of money and are in a very serious situation.”
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“If you play in ESL, not in the European Football Federation (UEFA) Champions League (UCL), the clubs can make up for a big deficit.” Will save them from the financial crisis.”
Chairman Perez stressed that the football industry was in crisis even before Corona 19. Chairman Perez’s view is that Corona 19 is the one who has accelerated the launch of ESL by showing the reality that football is facing.
“The popularity of football is falling, and TV broadcasting rights are on the decline,” he said. “Corona 19 gave a warning signal that everyone in the football world is going down.”
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“Football must evolve like everything else in our lives,” he said. “The most attractive thing in football is the big club confrontation. The launch of ESL will raise broadcasting rights and make more profits.”
There are criticisms that the operation of ESL, which recognizes the exclusive status of the founding clubs without a lift system, is a product of the selfishness and greed of the rich clubs, but Chairman Peres defended that this would allow the whole football world to maintain a healthier’ecosystem’.
“We will build a pyramid-like structure in the future,” said Peres. “Our big clubs will make more money and invest more money in recruiting players.”
He said, “If the structure where big clubs lose money as it is now, the whole football world will collapse with UCL,” he said. “Our big clubs are trying to protect the football world for the next 20 years.”
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When 12 clubs, including Real Madrid, announced the launch of ESL the day before, UEFA and national league offices warned that ESL-participating clubs would not participate in domestic or international leagues or international competitions, and that their players would not be allowed to play for their national team. .
If both the launch of ESL and the UEFA warnings come true, Tottenham’s Son Heung-min, who participates in the ESL founding club, may not be able to join the Korean national team in the upcoming 2022 Qatar World Cup.
“It won’t happen,” Perez said in response to UEFA’s warning. Participating in ESL will not prevent players from participating in international competitions.
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