Last update 17 November, 2023 por Alberto Llopis
There is no doubt that if there is a competition for excellence in the world of football, at club level, That's the Champions League. The current Champions League is a scenario that brings together the best teams in the world, and the most talented players of the moment. A show that carries with it a huge business which many people are profiting.
It's for this reason, you try, increasingly, enhance the productivity of this competition. Logically, Whenever this happens, most often they benefited most powerful, and this time it would not be less.
Rummenigge's measures to change the Champions League
The new reform launched by the president of the European Club Association (ECA), Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, He has jeopardized the smaller federations, which strongly oppose such changes take place from 2018, as is provided.
With the new format is intended to apply to the Champions, The first four sets finishers in each of the four major leagues (España, Italia, Germany and England) They have direct access to the group stage without having to play any previous round. This translates to 16 de los 32 They will come from teams around the most powerful leagues, which greatly hinders access to other competitions clubs.
Además, The income distribution also rises significantly for those groups that are at the head of the well-known “UEFA coefficient”.
En definitiva, measures that seek to give a more spectacular but you really become discriminative.
