Heard these days about the some of the major premier league championships in Europe; if you can’t win the championship, it isn’t so bad since you can also qualify for the European Champions League by finishing second, third or even fourth. Well what do you think about that?!
That’s the reality of major league football these days. Obtaining the national title is still important of course but isn’t vital anymore. A few years back, only champions could participate in the then called European Champion Clubs’ Cup. Now with the European Champions League, priority is given to playing more games, protecting the most prestigious teams and making as much money as possible along the way. The consequence is that it undermines the prestige of winning national titles, at least in the German, French, Italian, English and Spanish leagues where more than one club can participate in the UEFA’s European Champions League. I would propose to rename the competition to something like the European Old Boys’ Cup!
UEFA and Platini should step hard here. I would go as far as to advise underdoing competitive events to football. It’s by creating relevant scarcity that you actually increase the quality of an event and not by proposing more.
Maracanazos argue for less, not more.