Football Superliga The power of giants – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

The Super League is still far off. But it is thinking about it. As the construct over the Champions League should look exactly it, there are only vague theories. Neither the number of teams still qualifying mode, certainly not the game mode are fixed. Only the basic idea is crystal clear: even more money for the industry giants

Author: Peter Hess, sports editor. Follow

the FC Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Juventus, Paris St-Germain and Bayern Munich are the big train numbers of European football, and since the market analysis is not surprising, that a strong customer interest in these encounters football giants. This is also the industry giants aware and constitutes organizations under pressure to consider their needs and to satisfy their hunger for more and more money. Before Superliga already scenarios of a possible World League were explored.

The Emperor class about the premier class came the big time just right, because the guaranteed sums for participation in the competition manifested their financial advantage over the other, reducing the risk, to be displaced from the golden cups. Long since there are no two opinions about that once polarizing argument: “Money not score!” Yes, it does. It has only enough cash flow.

So is the Super League come, although there are good counter-arguments. For they are the wrong people, they say – the small fish in the pond Football. The anyone interested because they are not necessary for business success. Thoughts of solidarity, development aid or Leaving are third and viertrangig. In football, it’s like in all other industries in global competition: The Grand are getting bigger, end up staying a few market leaders, have next to him only a few companies with regional importance place, and vendors serving the niche

<. p> This development has progressed through the Champions League. In the last decade there have only Atlético Madrid and Borussia Dortmund to the final (and lost). Otherwise there clashed only clubs from the absolute top of the financial ladder. The last premier class winner who did not come from among the usual suspects, was FC Porto. That was in 2004. In the last quarter-final, Bayern sent the Portuguese with a 6:. 1 home win home

 
     
     
                 
                                 
                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                               
                 
                     
             
                                      A game that is accepted in the Superleague: A Torszene from the knockout duel Chelsea against Paris
                     
     
     
 

In the eighties, was found in the list of winners of the then European Champions’ Cup still a colorful smorgasbord of name: Aston Villa, Steaua Bucharest, Hamburger SV, PSV Eindhoven, Red Star Belgrade. With the introduction of the Champions League was reduced diversity, after 25 years, limited to the group of potential winners to six or eight.

One can find good or not. The time is no longer turn back, market forces are not to override. Who does not succeed at the table of the emperor, has to make do with smaller portions. This is also very possible – as now prove for many clubs. In the Bundesliga there are Mönchengladbach, Cologne, Mainz, Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Darmstadt and some more that provide no prospect of the Super League for a football elation at their location. The art of the possible is sometimes even greater stimulus than the power of gigantism.