Choose your allegiance, says UEFA President

UEFA representatives will not let the whole Super League fiasco die down that easily. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin is persistent in the intent to hear all the clubs define their position.

Ceferin told The Associated Press on Friday that the Spanish and Italian clubs that are still clinging to the Super League must disavow the breakaway or face being banned from the Champions League.

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Although the Super League imploded this week after being rapidly abandoned by most participants, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus and AC Milan have not left the project and officials could “suffer some consequences,” the Slovenian said.

“It’s crystal clear that the clubs will have to decide if they are Super League or they are a European club,” Ceferin said in a telephone interview with the AP.

“If they say we are a Super League, then they don’t play Champions League, of course ... and if they are ready to do that, they can play in their own competition.”

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Because Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez, who was to chair the Super League, continues to defy UEFA and Ceferin by saying he will continue the fight to keep working on reviving the Super League. While Madrid’s place in the Champions League semifinals next week is not at risk, participation in the future will be unless the ultimatum is dropped.

UEFA is assessing sanctions for officials from the clubs involved in the rebellion that threatened to rip European football apart after being launched on Sunday night just as Ceferin was preparing to officially unveil a new format for the Champions League the following day.

“We still are waiting for legal expertise and then we will say, but everybody faces consequences for their decisions and they know that,” Ceferin said.

“For me, it’s a very different situation between the clubs that admitted their mistake and said, ‘We will leave the project.’ The others mainly know I would say that this project is dead, but they don’t want to believe it, probably.”

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Ceferin led a virtual meeting of UEFA’s top decision-making body on Friday when the prospect of punishing the club officials who misled them was discussed.

“We agreed today at the executive committee to connect with the football federations, the national associations and leagues that are concerned,” Ceferin stated.

“We will do that next week and we’ll see. It would be good that we can see what specific leagues can do, and what the federations can do, and what UEFA can do.”

Real Madrid are playing their first leg against Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday, the 27th of April and they can focus on the ir journey in the competition this year.

What will happen in the future is yet to be seen.