Super League Surrender: Nine Teams Apologize but New Fight Looms Nine founders of a breakaway soccer league admitted it was a mistake and agreed to pay millions in fines. But three holdouts are vowing to seek damages. Real Madrid’s president, Florentino Pérez, the first chairman of the Super League, is continuing to fight for the project.Credit...Rodrigo Jimenez/EPA, via Shutterstock Published May 7, 2021Updated May 8, 2021, 8:04 p.m. ET Less than two weeks after they became partners in a European Super League that would have cast aside the structures and organizations that have underpinned soccer on the Continent for nearly a century, a group of the sport’s biggest clubs are now engaged in a new battle behind the scenes.