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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