FC Barcelona issued a statement on Saturday explaining that it has \u201cformally notified the European Super League Company and the clubs involved of its withdrawal from the European Super League project.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
This decision completes a position the club had already made public last December, when president Joan Laporta spoke at a forum organized by Foros La Vanguardia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want peace and sustainability in football. I inherited the Super League situation and carried on with it because I felt there were major imbalances with the state-backed clubs. It has dragged on, and all this lack of definition does not benefit us,\u201d the Bar\u00e7a president acknowledged openly.<\/p>\n
It is worth recalling that FC Barcelona was one of the driving forces behind the project proposed in 2021 by several clubs to create a private competition among some of Europe\u2019s biggest teams, designed to replace or rival tournaments organized by UEFA, such as the Champions League.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The initiative aimed to guarantee higher revenues and greater financial stability for those clubs, but the project has not unfolded as expected. One by one, its main backers have withdrawn, with Barcelona now the latest to step away, leaving only Real Madrid and Florentino P\u00e9rez still on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Barcelona issued a statement on Saturday explaining that it has \u201cformally notified the European Super League Company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-454487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}