No decision on the request to play Milan-like in Perth. An idea that almost nobody likes, as well as the will of the Barceliona to move the Liga to Miami. Here’s what’s behind the last battle of the European clubs
The choice of UEFA not to decide on the Serie A request and Spanish Liga to carry the respective championships around the world, The nothing done was matured in the Tirana Executive Committee of 12 September, scores a point in favor of the proponents. In essence, the air he pulled in view of the appointment of the top of the maximum European football organism led to the rejection of the proposal and having earned time allows Italian and Spanish managers to try to build a consent that is missing today.
The formula used by UEFA to legitimize the non -decision is that of need for further insights: “The Committee recognized that it is an important and growing issue, but expressed the desire to make sure that she had listened to the opinions of all the parties concerned before reaching a definitive decision”. Among the interested parties, explained Nyon, The fans who from their point of view have expressed opposed, allergic to any form of experimentation, will also be heard..
Difficult to justify the trip of a championship match in Australia (Milan- scheduled in early February 2026) with the impossibility of finding a stadium with sufficient capacity without flying a Pear: 14 thousand kilometers go and as many return. “It is not a whim but a need,” explained the president of the Serie A League, Ezio Maria Simonelli, who has implemented the input to proceed with the Australian trip from Milan.
The idea is that bringing one of the 380 games of the Serie A championship on the other side of the worldthat you cannot play at San Siro due to the concomitance with the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Olympics, can help Italian football export your brandopen new markets. The same thought that Barcelona made by asking to play Miami the challenge with Villarreal in December.
It is not said that only the fans are on the war footing, however. In Spain, for example, the major opposition force to the Barcelona project comes from the Redal Arci of Real Madrid who took paper and pen to write to the Federation, UEFA and FIFA asking to oppose the concession of the derogation from the Catalans. The reasons almost certainly sink into the centuries -old rivalry between the two clubs, but there is no doubt that the position of Real Madrid’s position will unwind as the front is not compact even in the rooms of the companies.
It is not a novelty even this: for some time now the requests of the multinationals of the ball and the other football – provincial and not only – are different if not opposite: UEFA and FIFA have torn widening the formats of the Champions League and the Club World Cup, but now The challenge has moved to the Core Business of the football of the past and also today which is the inseparable link between a team and its people who are mainly expressed in the possibility of always and in any case in the championship competition and the European cups.
The suspicion is that sending Australia Milan-Um (and Miami Barcelona) would create the previous one to appeal to then move around the world a whole day of Serie A and Liga. It is not a thing called so much to frighten the Italian fans, now spent in every act they perform to try to feed the love for their respective teams; To say that sending the debut of the championship to the States is “a dream” was the same president of Lega Simonelli no later than last summer. Understandable that all the others have put themselves on the war footing.
The question is: is there a right price, and if it exists, to cut the umbilical cord? The response of UEFA’s “non -choice” is that there may be a price for everything. That of the other interested parties, which pompously are called “stakeholders” has been clear for some time and not so difficult to understand and interpret.
