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FIFA Threatens WC Ban For Players In Breakaway Super League

Top players will be "barred from playing for their national teams in events like the World Cup" if their clubs join a breakaway European league, soccer's major governing bodies warned on Thursday. The announcement by FIFA and soccer’s six regional confederations "follows weeks of talks and months of disquiet" after the revelation of plans hatched by some of the world’s richest and most popular clubs to create a so-called Super League. That competition could "render irrelevant" the Champions League. According to documents reviewed by the New York Times, plans for the breakaway European Super League "gathered pace since the summer," as top clubs "sought to take advantage of uncertainty in the soccer industry" caused by the coronavirus pandemic (N.Y. TIMES, 1/21). 

Sky Sports' Bryan Swanson called FIFA's statement a "show of force from the game’s leaders." Sky Sports' Kaveh Solhekol said that FIFA, UEFA and "all the other confederations are against these proposals." Solhekol: "But having said all that, something has to change in the Champions League" ("Sky Sports News," NBCSN, 1/21).

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