Florentino Pérez: "Only by promoting football as a global sport can we protect all the clubs"

MADRID, 2 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, once again defended this Sunday the Super League project as the best solution to "sick European football" and that it must be potential "as a global sport to protect all clubs."

"To solve a problem, we must necessarily start by recognizing it, only then can we find solutions. The serious problem is that football is sick in old Europe, the EU and Spain, it is losing its leadership as the parameters and data confirm" , warned Florentino Pérez during the Ordinary and Extraordinary Assemblies of the club.

The leader insisted that "young people are less interested" in football and that "current European competitions as they are designed do not attract fans" except in the final crosses. "With the utmost respect for the national leagues, we understand that they must change to offer matches throughout the year at the highest level and that the most powerful teams compete with each other to put our sport in its privileged place," he added.

"Nadal and Federer have played 40 times, Nadal and Djokovic 59, is this boring? This has boosted tennis and all the players because tennis comes out stronger. Against Liverpool, in 67 years, we have only played nine times What is the point of depriving fans around the world of these matches? Only by promoting football as a global sport will we be able to protect all the clubs and for this it is essential to offer matches of the highest quality and interest", underlined the madridista president.

Pérez, who also attacked LaLiga for its agreements with CVC and for audiovisual rights for the next five seasons, stressed that UEFA "promotes reforms of the European Cup in the opposite direction" and compared the situation with that of sport in the USA. "We need a professional, modern and transparent management, and not work in old structures based on the past to offer a quality product that returns the passion for football," he said.

For this reason, he opted for "a constructive and free dialogue" and was hopeful about the ruling of the European justice on the "UEFA monopoly", which he hopes will resolve "definitively in a decision that will mark the future of sport in the EU ". "Once it is pronounced, we will work together to excite the fans throughout the year", he sentenced.