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Super League rebels shift the goalposts of European football

Ruling body Uefa hits out at clubs’ ‘lies’ as they plan elite breakaway competition

When the head of Uefa heard on Saturday that many of the world’s most famous football clubs were on the verge of announcing a radical plan to join a breakaway “Super League” that would upend the sport, he knew who to ask.

Aleksander Ceferin, president of European football’s governing body Uefa, turned to Andrea Agnelli, a scion of the Italian billionaire dynasty that owns Turin-based Juventus, Italy’s most dominant football club. 

“[Agnelli] said these are only rumours and then he said I’ll call you in one hour,” Ceferin told a press conference on Monday. “He turned off his phone. The next day, we get the announcement.”

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