: Super League fallout: Real Madrid’s Florentino Perez, Juventus’ Andrea Agnelli emerge biggest losers #IndiaNEWS Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and Juventus counterpart Andrea Agnelli were

Super League fallout: Real Madrid’s Florentino Perez, Juventus’ Andrea Agnelli emerge biggest losers #IndiaNEWS
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez and Juventus counterpart Andrea Agnelli were the biggest losers of the short-lived European Super League fiasco which risks tarnishing the image of two of the most influential men in world football.Almost thirty years may separate 74-year-old Spaniard Perez, and Italian Agnelli, 45, but the pair are united by the same driving ambition to make their respective clubs global brands, always generating money through TV rights and supporters throughout the world.Their vision was embodied in the controversial Super League project, of which they were two of the principal instigators.Agnelli, scion of one of Italy’s most powerful and richest families, has been at the helm of Juventus since 2010, during which time they have won nine-consecutive Serie A titles but finished runners-up twice in the Champions League.“Football is no longer a game but an industrial sector and it needs stability,??? argued Agnelli in Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Wednesday. For Perez, recently re-elected unopposed as president of Spanish champions Real Madrid and named chairman of the new ESL, his driving ambition was also fundamentally financial.“Football has to keep changing and adapting to the times. Football is losing its appeal. Something must be done,??? he said of the bid by 12 powerful clubs –...Read more

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