No Champions League games to be played outside Europe, UEFA president says
UEFA president Aleksander Cerefin has dismissed rumours the governing body could take European Champions League games out of Europe.
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UEFA president Aleksander Cerefin has dismissed rumours the governing body could take European Champions League games out of Europe.
Public health experts are urging UEFA to see sense and not allow thousands of fans to travel across Europe to attend the Champions League final in Istanbul, where covid cases are sky high. UEFA is expected to confirm that visiting supporters will be allowed to attend the final at the Ataturk Stadium in Turkey. With Chelsea and Manchester City now well placed to progress to the showpiece on May 29, English fans would face a 4,000-mile round trip to a country with one of the highest average daily infection rates in Europe. Chelsea earned a 1-1 draw away to Spanish giants Real Madrid on Tuesday ...
Joan Laporta reaffirmed the club's desire to be in the Super League project, perhaps as a way of alleviating some of the pressure of their 1.173 billion euro debt. " Super League is not the best way to rebuild relations with UEFA, but I understand it from the point of view of the need to obtain a greater amount of income, above all for the stability that this could generate for him. Whether he has misjudged the results will only be known in the future," says Xavier Ginesta, an expert on the geopolitics of football. Nevertheless, there is one person that comes out worse from this failed ve...