Spanish outlet, Mundo Deportivo, report that the European Parliament approved a report in which it rejects the sporting model of "dissident competitions" such as the Super League, 29 votes in favour, 1 against and 1 abstention.
Former footballer now working as the rapporteur in the European Parliament Tomasz Frankowski said the following:
"We need more EU policy involvement in sports and more sports funding. Our main task as MEPs is to enhance and protect a values based sporting model in Europe for the next generation. We have to work together against the forces that threaten this model and seek to undermine it with a pure profit-based vision of sport. That is why we are against a closed Super League of elite clubs in European football. Sport is a right for everyone. That is something that all of European sport must always stand for".
The Members of European Parliament propose that the European Union design a sports culture based on values such as solidarity, sustainability, inclusiveness, competition and justice with opposition to "dissident competitions that undermine these standards and endanger the stability of the sporting ecosystem in general".
