Superleague won a battle before the Court of Justice of the European Union in December. It considered UEFA's claim to ban any dissident football competition to be contrary to competition law.
Champions League quarter-finals are drawn this Friday at the end of the morning. The hoped-for boulevard looks more like a Stations of the Cross. If its promoters hope to kick off “ as quickly as possible ”, they have neither deadline nor precise roadmap. “We still need to convince, and overcome a certain reluctance to change mentalities. A necessary change for European football, ” confides Bernd Reichart, general director of A22, the structure in charge of developing the separatist competition.