FIGC President Gabriele Gravina insists that Juventus will be excluded from Serie A if the Super League materialises.
The Bianconeri’s president Andrea Agnelli is one of the architects of the breakaway competition that was announced by 12 European clubs one year ago but collapsed within 48 hours.
Nine of those 12 clubs have announced their withdrawal from the competition. Juventus, Real Madrid and Barcelona are still formally involved in the project and Agnelli said earlier this month that the contract signed with the organisers of the competition is still valid for 11 of those 12 clubs.
“That contract is just a hypothesis, but Juventus would be excluded from Serie A if it becomes a reality,” Gravina told La Repubblica newspaper.
“The Super League is the wrong answer to a real problem. Italy must think about how to make the league more attractive for expanding markets like the Arab one, where at the moment they don’t get enough.”
Inter and Milan were the only Serie A clubs involved in the competition and the Nerazzurri are the only club that formally left the project thanks to a clause included in their contract with the Super League organisers.
Italian football is facing a thought moment as there are no Serie A clubs in the Champions League quarter-finals, while the Azzurri must go through the World Cup play-offs to qualify for Qatar 2022. Nevertheless, Gravina has full confidence in Roberto Mancini.
“He lost one game out of the last 40. He signed a new contract before the Euros without knowing we’d win it,” he said.
“Serie A is not against me, only two or three people are. There is resistance from some of the old protagonists of football who have not done the good of the movement and today can not be a governmental reference”.