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French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech to present his New Year's wishes to elite athletes ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, at France's National Institute of Sport, Expertise, and Performance (INSEP) in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (Stephane De Sakutin/Pool Photo via AP)

France leads charge to defend EU sporting model after Super League plans received boost

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin hands the trophy to Manchester City's team captain Ilkay Gundogan after the Champions League final soccer match between Manchester City and Inter Milan in Istanbul, Turkey, Sunday, June 11, 2023. The European Union’s top court has ruled UEFA and FIFA acted contrary to EU competition law by blocking plans for the breakaway Super League. The case was heard last year at the Court of Justice after Super League failed at launch in April 2021. UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin called the club leaders “snakes” and “liars.” (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Top clubs oppose revival of Super League in court ruling against FIFA, UEFA

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Chairman of Manchester City Khaldoon Al Mubarak, right, poses with Manchester City's Erling Haaland after the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Chelsea at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday, May 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Jon Super)

Man City, Inter Milan meet in Champions League final of contrasting club history

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Real Madrid's Eden Hazard gestures after Chelsea's Mason Mount scored his side's second goal, during the Champions League semifinal 2nd leg soccer match between Chelsea and Real Madrid at Stamford Bridge in London, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Barca, Madrid, Juve cling onto Super League, denounce UEFA

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday April 23, 2021 file photo, fans protest against Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke before their English Premier League soccer match against Everton, outside the Emirates Stadium in London. The fans want owner Stan Kroenke to leave the club over its bid to join the failed Super League. Only nine of the 12 European clubs who launched an ill-fated bid to form a Super League have agreed to a peace deal with UEFA and accepted being fined millions of dollars, Friday May 7, 2021. The remaining trio of rebels, Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus, are at risk of being banned from the Champions League for not renouncing the breakaway. (AP Photo/Frank Griffiths, File)

9 Super League clubs accept UEFA fines, 3 rebels face bans

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

A mural depicting Juventus president Andrea Agnelli making a hole in a football with a knife, appeared in Rome, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Juventus was one of the three Italian soccer clubs among the founding members of the now defunct project to give life to a &quot;Super League&quot; of European clubs. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Italy to ban clubs that join breakaway leagues from Serie A

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FILE - In this file photo dated Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018, Real Madrid President Florentino Perez gives a thumbs up as he arrives for the UEFA Champions League draw at the Grimaldi Forum, in Monaco. Perez says the Super League is being created now to save soccer amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the idea of the new elite league has existed way before the pandemic ever hit and he has been behind it from the start. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

Madrid president says Super League clubs ‘can’t leave’ plan

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FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020, UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin poses for a picture during an interview with The Associated Press in Lisbon, Portugal. Ceferin said Friday April 23, 2021, that the Spanish and Italian clubs still clinging to the Super League must disavow the breakaway or face being banned from the Champions League. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, FILE)

How UEFA president Ceferin crushed a Super League rebellion

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Italy's Andrea Agnelli, chairman of the European Club Association, ECA, speaks to the media, during a press conference after the general assembly of the European Club Association, ECA, in Geneva, Switzerland. If the stylish and swashbuckling soccer romantic Giovanni Agnelli represented the epitome of club presidents a few generations ago, his nephew Andrea Agnelli’s affinity for the cut-throat business side of the sport falls more in line with the American and foreign owners who are gobbling up the European game. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File )

Super League fiasco gives clubs open goal to reset with UEFA

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Wednesday, April 21, 2021, a protest banner against the proposed Super League is seen outside Liverpool's Anfield Stadium after the collapse of English involvement in the proposed new league, Liverpool, England. The aborted plan to create a breakaway Super League with 12 of the biggest clubs in European soccer was perhaps the most egregious example of a sporting venture that quickly fell flat on its face. (AP Photo/Jon Super, FILE)

Klopp says EPL’s rebel owners ‘learned their lesson’

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Fans protest against Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke before their English Premier League match against Everton, at the Emirates Stadium in London, Friday April 23, 2021. The fans want owner Stan Kroenke to leave the club over its bid to join the failed Super League. (John Walton/PA via AP)

Arsenal fans protest against owner for Super League debacle

By FRANK GRIFFITHS - Associated Press

Zidane not worried by UEFA threat to kick Madrid out of CL

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, March 7, 2021 file photo, Joan Laporta celebrates his victory after elections at the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona president Joan Laporta maintained his support for the Super League on Thursday April 22, 2021, despite the quick exit of 10 of the 12 founding clubs in the breakaway competition. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort, File)

Barcelona maintains support of Super League despite backlash

By JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium is seen after the collapse of English involvement in the proposed European Super League, Manchester, England, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward will step down from his role at the end of 2021 an announcement which came before Manchester United, along with the other five Premier League sides involved in the proposed European Super League (ESL), withdrew from the competition. (AP Photo/Jon Super) **FILE**

EPL looks to deploy moves to stop future Super League threat

By Rob Harris - Associated Press

A man cycles past banners outside of Anfield Stadium, Liverpool, England protesting against the clubs decision to join the European Super Leaguer, Tuesday April 20, 2021. Chelsea and Manchester City are preparing to dramatically abandon plans to join a breakaway Super League threatening to implode the project by a group of elite English, Spanish and Italian clubs less than two days after it was announced. (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)

EPL rebels apologize for Super League mutiny to placate fans

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Tottenham fans stage a protest against the Board over the planned creation of a European Super League, outside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium ahead of the English Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Southampton in London, England, Wednesday April 21, 2021. (Clive Rose/Pool via AP)

Super League Timeline

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A woman takes a snapshot in front Atletico Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. A group of 12 elite English, Spanish and Italian clubs dramatically split European soccer on Sunday by announcing the formation of a largely-closed Super League. The Super League's founding chairman Florentino Perez on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 says the competition is being created to save soccer for everyone and not to make the rich clubs richer. The Real Madrid president says it's &quot;impossible&quot; that players from the participating teams will be banned by UEFA. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) **FILE**

Super League backer says breakaway competition is on standby

By Tales Azzoni - Associated Press

Manchester City's head coach Pep Guardiola gestures during the Champions League quarterfinal second leg soccer match between Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City at the Signal Iduna Park stadium in Dortmund, Germany, Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, Pool)

Guardiola attacks Super League as threat to values of sport

By STEVE DOUGLAS - Associated Press

On College Football: Who would make 15-team super league?

By RALPH D. RUSSO - Associated Press

Chelsea fans protest against Chelsea's decision to be included amongst the clubs attempting to form a new European Super League before the English Premier League soccer match between Chelsea and Brighton and Hove Albion outside Stamford Bridge stadium in London, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein,&#160;Pool)

Super League collapses after the six English clubs withdraw

By Rob Harris - Associated Press