Real Madrid president attacks UEFA: ‘Football is sick, especially in Europe’

Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid of the Spanish football club Real Madrid, confirmed that football in Europe is sick, due to the wrong way of managing competitions by the European Union, stressing that the new generations focus on other types of shows and sports. The chief attacked UEFA’s administration, claiming the Superliga and criticizing LaLiga: “They have turned a popular product into a luxury product.” Florentino Perez, president of Real Madrid, took the lead in the Ordinary General Meeting of the membership with a speech in the President’s Report in which I ship a message about the way forward for soccer and the tremendous league the league promoted by the white chief. “To solve a problem you have to recognize that problem. Our sport is sick, especially in Europe Y Spain. It loses its leadership in the world. Young people are less and less interested because they demand a quality product that football does not offer, as their leagues are not,” he stated. Perez, who also attacked LaLiga for its agreements with CVC and for audiovisual rights for the next five seasons, stressed that UEFA “promotes reforms of the European Cup in the opposite direction” and compared the situation with that of sport in the USA. “We need a professional, modern and transparent management, and not work in old structures based on the past to offer a quality product that returns the passion for football,” he said.
For this reason, he opted for “a constructive and free dialogue” and was hopeful about the ruling of the European justice on the “UEFA monopoly”, which he hopes will resolve “definitively in a decision that will mark the future of sport in the EU “. “Once it is pronounced, we will work together to excite the fans throughout the year”, he sentenced.
We will have to remind EUEFA who Real Madrid is, the crowd sings "We are the kings of Europe". President of Real Madrid said.