Football is a sport that is played eleven against eleven on a green rectangle, but it is also a war of power around colossal economic issues.
From January 13, Apple TV+ dives into an unknown dimension by broadcasting
Super League: The War for Football
, a documentary series that reveals the dark behind-the-scenes fight waged behind the scenes by Europe's biggest franchises to develop their own interests.
For twenty years, fifteen English, Spanish, Italian and… French clubs have imagined their future outside the existing institutions.
On April 18, 2021, twelve of them launched into the void by announcing the creation of a competition competing with the Champions League.
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Produced by duo Schell-Geist (originally behind The Last Dance) and directed by Jeff Zimbalist (Pelé: Birth of a Legend), the four-part series lifts the lid on the secret plans hatched to bring out this juicy Dissident League in Europe.
A project carried in the shadows by powerful leaders, associated to overthrow the power in place and break traditions.
"Evolution is inevitable
," says the Real Madrid boss.
"Be careful, it's too big for you"
, alarms an English counterpart.
Two days after the announcement, the football moguls are backtracking.
At the twilight of an exciting underground revolution, the fiasco will be total and merciless...
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