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December 23 – The European Membership Affiliation, the influential physique representing lots of of golf equipment throughout Europe, have dismissed the newest plans to launch a 96-team breakaway league.
The unique European Tremendous League (ESL), backed by 12 of the continent’s largest golf equipment, evaporated nearly in a single day after it was controversially launched in 2021.
Below the proposed revamp introduced final week and dubbed the Unify League, sports activities improvement firm A22 stated the brand new format can be merit-based and extra aggressive than UEFA’s present membership competitions.
However the ECA insist the venture will unify completely no-one and is merely a publicity-seeking disruptive enterprise.
A memo from ECA chair and Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi (pictured), obtained by Sky Information, and apparently circulated to the ECA board, accuses the architects of the rebranded Unify League of “desperately craving” publicity.
A22 introduced final week that the Unify League – designed to usurp the Champions League and primarily backed by Actual Madrid – had submitted proposals for a 96-team, four-division competitors to FIFA and UEFA.
It plans to point out the video games on a bespoke free-to-air streaming platform moderately than promoting the rights to broadcast companions.
However in his memo to the ECA board Al-Khelaifi is claimed to have charged: “That is the third Christmas interval the place utterly unrepresentative administration consultants and separatist self-interested golf equipment have sought to interrupt up European and world soccer, every time with a barely tailored and re-branded venture, however at all times underpinned by the identical motivations and solely created for their very own profit.”
The ECA chair stated Unify League proposal was “nothing new in any respect” and “simply the newest in an extended line of PR makes an attempt by A22 to attract consideration to their disruptive trigger, which is to undermine the constructive and progressive partnership that ECA has with UEFA.”
“In response to a cynical communications marketing campaign in opposition to European membership soccer, we have to be good – and ensure all our 731 membership members know our place and the details,” he wrote.
“UEFA and FIFA, for his or her components, will evaluation the newest communications from A22 and reply – provided that vital – within the New 12 months.”
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