Spanish Marca wonders what happens to Red Star and Partizan after founding of European Super League

Spain's most influential sports newspaper points out to the clubs have been forgotten by the 12 founders of the new competition

The founding of the European Super League by the 12 richest clubs is a hot topic in sports media around the world. The most popular Spanish newspaper, Marca, deals also with teams that are neither among the 12 selected, nor have been contacted, unlike PSG, Bayern and Dortmund, who reportedly refused the initial invitation.

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Red Star, whose coat of arms is on the front page of Marca, along with several other football giants such as Ajax, Benfica, Porto, Celtic, is among those.

Marca looks at the history of club football and recalls memorable historical football nights when teams from less powerful countries achieved great victories against the strongest clubs in Europe.

There have been fewer and fewer such victories since the establishment of the Champions League, and with the introduction of the European Super League, they will be impossible.

Elite clubs have decided to separate, and Marca also recalls everyone they left out and what the establishment of the European Super League means for the rest of European football.

It is noted that the giants from Portugal, who have two European championship titles each, are left out of the competition and can only hope for an invitation, while Sporting, which is currently on the verge of winning the domestic title, is miles away from the Super League.

Also, there will be no Ajax, four-time European champions. The team that created Johan Cruyff and revolutionized football. A name like Ajax can certainly match any team from the Super League tradition-wise, but it is still financially weaker. Ajax can still expect an invitation for the European Super League, but there will be no place there for fwo more European champions from the Netherlands - PSV and Feyenoord.

A part of the article is dedicated to Eastern Europe, to which the Super League said has said "goodbye."

"Far away from the economic world, Eastern European teams have no place in the new format. You might think that Russian clubs have a chance to enter the Super League someday, but others, including champions like Steaua or Red Star, will not be able to. The same goes for Dinamo Kiev, Ferencvarosi, Partizan, the Greeks, the Turks...," writes Marca.

The text also asks what will happen to another European champion - Celtic, another iconic European club.

Many other teams from the national leagues of those who founded the Super League, such as Roma, Napoli, Lazio, Sevilla, Marseille... also remain outside the elite.

(Telegraf.rs)