UEFA welcomed the Council of Europe’s support for the European football model and the resolution approved this Wednesday by the Parliamentary Assembly of this, which says “no to the selfish super leagues and no to the extravagant proposals of the World Cup”, according to its president Alexander Ceferin.
“It’s ‘No’ to selfish super leagues and ‘No’ to extravagant World Cup proposals. But ‘Yes. Yes. Yes.’ to work together to protect and strengthen our model which works in the interests of European football and society,” said Ceferin it’s a statement.
“The European institutions and European football, as well as the European sports movement, are firmly united around our values ​​and our solidarity model,” insisted the Slovenian leader. “There is no room for interpretation or negotiation,” he stated.
The UEFA He stressed that the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE)‘Football governance: business and values’, “is especially critical of the failed attempt to break up the European super league and warns of the potentially ‘disastrous’ consequences of plans currently being studied by FIFA to hold the World Cup every two years”.
For the UEFA represents “a determined support and an important contribution to the priority issues for the positive development of football in the future” and “underlines the universal commitment of European public authorities to continue protecting and reinforcing the solidarity and values-based model of European football”.
“The Resolution contains recommendations and calls to sport governing bodies and stakeholders on a number of priority issues, such as good governance and the contribution of national leagues to pan-European solidarity mechanisms, human rights, equality of gender, the protection of minors and the reforms of the transfer market, among others,” he added.
UEFA thanked “the broad contribution” of the initiative, which “will support the important debates that are taking place in the process of consultation and reform of the UEFA Convention on the Future of European Footballwhich brings together the main European football stakeholders and includes the EU and the Council of Europe as formal observers”, announcing that it will “properly study the substantive details together with relevant stakeholders and experts”.
Directed by Lord George FoulkesMember of the UK House of Lords and former Chairman of Hearts of Midlothian Football Club (2004–05), the resolution was approved (70 votes in favor and 10 against) after the intervention in the assembly of the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, invited on the occasion of the adoption of the new report on governance in football.