The introduction of the Europa League is for the football counter-productive, because the market is already saturated. No one needs the new competition, says Jörg straw sham, behind it is more of a choice gift.
Actually, you could look at also nonchalant about it. Whether now 80 upper 96 clubs participate, but the season 2021/22 at the European competitions, it makes the cabbage actually no more fat. And if, for example, the Bulgarian Team Beroe Stara Zagora against the Romanians from the FC Viitorul Constanta unsubscribe, another game on the European stage, is certainly not a summit, the football world has been waiting for. But Geez, who would like to see the Kick to do it. Who makes it, so argumentative and so convenient, but overlooks a crucial fact: There is anyway as good as not a day more, not somewhere to play football and in the TV and Internet is shown. And that’s exactly where the Problem lies.
Low Interest
Because many of the Fans stinks. The special has become the Everyday. Football is, always and everywhere. Europe don’t have Cup evenings are long, more the electrifying Aura of the Extraordinary. How low is the interest in the group phase of the already existing Europe League is even now sometimes, was last in the match Bayer 04 Leverkusen against Ludogrets Razgrad. Only around 16,000 visitors were responsible for nearly gespentische atmosphere in the already not huge BayArena. That RB coach Ralf Rangnick known least publicly, the League have for him, clearly take precedence over the Europa League, had also a deep look.
Already introduced to the UEFA Nations League, the FIFA chief Gianni Infantino preferred Reform of the club world Cup from seven to 24 Teams, the possible extension of the world Cup in Qatar in 2022 from 32 to 48 teams, as well as the idea of a European League with maybe 20 Teams in the football world anyway, for weeks and months. The apparent intention behind it: the infinite multiplication of money.
The house blessing is crooked
And many Fans of: Europe, interfere far is protesting against the commercialization. In Germany, the League folded already and cancelling games in the future, the infamous Monday. And “the product” it is now: Even in the Champions League, the “Cash cow” of UEFA, the group stage is only rarely exciting. It is felt there are always the same Teams like Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, Juventus Turin, FC Bayern and some of the top clubs and more, the move always and quite easily in the next round. The factor tension plays to the chagrin of many football Fans at this stage a minor role.
The TV stations make the choice is already difficult, not to Mention in addition claimed the purse of the Fans for the many required Pay-TV subscriptions. And the domestic peace of the home is likely to suffer, in many cases, also below the great football consumer, if, after the introduction of a third European Cup competition already in the afternoon, the TV flickers.
Bobic: “absolute madness”
DW sports reporter Jörg straw dummy: “imagine it’s soccer and nobody looks.”
From the point of view of the smaller European football associations, the introduction of a second Europa League is almost a gift, because it leaves you with the hope that the bulging money of the Uefa pots at least a little instead of not to participate so far, so good. However, for the Teams in the big leagues, another competition is “absolute madness”, as it is formulated, Eintracht Frankfurt’s Manager Fredi Bobic recently. “The Fans don’t think of slow, to go to which game and to which. There is a glut.” And also RBLeipzig-chief Oliver Mintzlaff said in March the Trend of the decline in spectators going to pay in the stadiums: “It is quite possible that the variety of the competitions, the impact of a piece of it.”
It is hard to imagine that the Europa League II may represent a value for the clubs and football fans. It is, rather, a choice gift from Uefa President Aleksander Ceferin of the small associations that brought him to Power. A classic in the guide of the football officials. The plans show once more that the professional lives football in a parallel world, detached from the interests of the Fans. The madness has a name: Europe League II. It would be a good time to stop this rampant turbo-capitalism to a halt. Otherwise, it means at some point: imagine, it’s football and nobody looks any more.