Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) President Aleksander Ceferin condemned on Thursday the plans to revive the European Super League (ESL), which was suspended after fans and national and international federations voiced their opposition to it.
"First they launched this nonsense of an idea in the middle of a [COVID-19] pandemic. Now we are reading articles every day they are planning to launch another idea in the middle of a war [in Ukraine]. They obviously live in a parallel world," he said at the Financial Times' Business of Football Summit, stressing that "if they play their own, they cannot play our competition."
His comments come after Juventus FC Chairman Andrea Agnelli, who Ceferin described as "[Russian President Vladimir] Putin of football," stated he will present the new proposals for reviving the ESL later at the same conference Ceferin was speaking at.
