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Monday, 2 December 2024

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Monday, 25 December 2023

EGYPTIAN SUPER CUP SEMI-FINAL SETTLED AFTER 34 PENALTIES

It took 34 penalty kicks before Modern Future finally beat Pyramids 14-13 in a nerve-shredding shootout in the Egyptian Super Cup semi-final on Monday after the contest had ended in a 0-0 draw.

Modern Future, who will face either Al Ahly or Ceramica Cleopatra in the final, squandered three spot kicks while Pyramids lost the match after missing a fourth penalty kick at Abu Dhabi's Mohammed bin Zayed Stadium.

Pyramids defender Osama Galal wasted two penalty shots, including the decisive one that sealed victory for Future.

Even though at times it felt that the shootout was never ending, it was well short of the 54 penalties taken when Washington FC beat Bedlington Terriers 25-24 in a local cup match in England last year.

A 2005 Namibian Cup match between KK Palace and Civics featured 48 penalties.

- Reuters

Saturday, 23 December 2023

ECJ'S SUPER LEAGUE JUDGEMENT EXPLAINED: UEFA, CLUBS AND MORE

Ceferin and UEFA still feel like they 'won' based on Thursday's judgement by the European Court of Justice, but this fight is far from over. Harry Langer/DeFodi Images via Getty Images

On Thursday, the European Court of Justice finally issued its judgement in the case pitting the remaining European Super League clubs (Barcelona and Real Madrid) against UEFA and FIFA.

The Super League and its backers, A22 Sports, had argued that UEFA's prohibition of the would-be competition, originally launched in April 2021, and its prospective punishments for participating clubs was an illegal monopoly under European competition law. The Super League clubs argued that the game's governing bodies were abusing their dominant position as regulators and competition organizers in stopping clubs from forming their own tournaments outside of the current framework of European football (the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League). The ECJ's judgement is binding and can't be appealed.

The stakes were very high. A win for UEFA and FIFA would quash any real attempt for clubs -- many of which are private companies -- to organise their own competitions and administer them as they see fit, without governing body approval. A win for the Super League would open the door, potentially, to clubs -- not governing bodies -- deciding who they wanted to play against, when they wanted to play and how to divide the revenue.

Now to the thing you want to know: Who won? Well, the judgement fell somewhere in the middle, and it's complicated. Both sides are claiming victory to some degree. Let's attempt to make some sense of it.

65 CLUBS, 3 DIVISIONS: SUPER LEAGUE'S NEW PLAN AFTER RULING

Standing with Bernd Reichart, Real Madrid's Florentino Perez and Barcelona's Joan Laporta have already supported the new plans. Oscar J. Barroso/Europa Press via Getty Images

The European Super League set out its updated proposals for a Champions League replacement on Thursday, after a European court found that UEFA's rules restricting the creation of new competitions were "unlawful."

A presentation by A22 chief executive Bernd Reichart outlined plans for a three-league, 64 club men's competition, and a two-league, 32 club women's competition, to replace the UEFA Champions League and Women's Champions League.

The Super League's backers A22 Sports wasted no time in setting out their vision for a new Europe-wide club football competition on Thursday, just hours after the court's verdict was released.

"We'll keep working with clubs, leagues and other parties, without the fear of punishment, to create the best European football competitions," Reichart said. "We reaffirm our commitment to national leagues and the pyramid structure of football. For the first time since 1955, European competitions could be managed by the participating clubs themselves."

In a long-awaited decision, the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg held that UEFA "has been abusing a dominant position" in its prohibition of the Super League, finding that its rules on prior approval were not "transparent, objective, non-discriminatory and proportionate."