The football we have come to know and love is built on the idea of dreams, on the idea that your team can do anything and go anywhere.
The formation of a league solely for the teams who can afford to spend hundreds of millions on the world’s best players completely removes that dream.
The best football stories come from the underdogs, the chance to be unlikely winners from a bad deficit. You take that risk away from football, you take away what it is based upon.
It is quite simple, if you can’t aim for the top, it loses ideals and the split between the billionaires’ clubs to everyone else continues to grow.
FIFA and UEFA have condemned the league in each of their statements, threatening to sue the teams and permanently remove them from competitions.
UEFA, the English Football Association, the Premier League, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), LaLiga, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and Lega Serie A have today released a statement.
— UEFA (@UEFA) April 18, 2021
Read it in full here: 👇
They want to ban players from international tournaments, as they also share the view that a closed league is against the values and morals that has held up football so many times before.