"We do the Superliga to save to the football, the situation is dramatic", went the words of Florentino Pérez, president of the new competition, to justify the birth of the controversial tournament that has won animadversión of the entes rectors of the world-wide football like the UEFA, the FIFA and the own League Santander, where his boss Javier Thebes has fixed a férrea position in this regard.
"This do it to save the football, that is in a moment critical, ready to ruin . The situation is dramatic. It carries time losing interest. The audiences and the audiovisual rights go going down and something it was necessary to do. The football is in free fall. If we do not do something, will not last a lot. It has to evolve, like the life, the people and the companies. Has to adapt to the times", sustained Pérez during an interview offered to the program The Chiringuito.
Of agreement to sources and voices concomimiento on the subject consulted by the newspaper Marks, a year of margin is what give "the ideologists of the Superliga" to find the suitable frame to start the competition. "The project has the suitable structure, but want to look for a start consensuado, attain agreements to endow of sportive sense to the competition and for this want to speak with the leaders so much of the UEFA as of the FIFA", stands out the half.
Besides, it adds , that when fixing August like starting point, what wants to is to give some months of margin to reach principles in accordance with the UEFA, what would represent to endow of a sportive structure to the competition and have the sufficient time to explain to the fans and to the rest of the sectors the end of the new tournament, that in accordance with the explained by Pérez did not mean "to steal the dream" to the small clubs.
The position of Florentino
The also president of the Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, explained that the idea of the teams founders between which also appears the FC Barcelona and the Athletic of Madrid, is "to do parties more competitive and appeals for paliar the money that has lost ". Also attain attract more to the youngsters that, according to puntualizó, have moved away of this sport.
"There are a lot of parties of scarce quality and they go to other platforms. What is attractive is that we play the big. Now the Champions is only attractive from chambers. The rest, very little. It touches us against modest teams that do not have attractive. The youngsters prefer to entertain of another way, say that a party does them very long. Probably it is necessary to shorten them", it sustained.