ANALYSIS: Can football be saved? A new European Super League documentary wants us to decide
The ESL is a competition designed by the rich and for the rich: twelve of football's biggest clubs like Juventus, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Barcelona ripped out of their domestic leagues in order to play each other over and over in their own glamorous upgrade on the current UEFA Champions League, one of the most lucrative single sporting competitions on earth.
UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin and Juventus president Andrea Agnelli are the documentary's two protagonists whose competing worldviews define modern football. "It was really important to us in reaching out to these very difficult-to-access, very powerful and influential subjects, to say to them: we're not just asking for an interview where you break down the logic and arguments of your case and how you want to fix or preserve football.
PSG president Nasser Al Khelaifi is one of several powerful figures who shapeshift over the course of the series. We see the bombastic Javier Tebas , the president of Spain's La Liga, who at first is at loggerheads with Čeferin over lax Financial Fair Play laws and competition reforms, but soon aligns himself with UEFA against the ESL.
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