All were surprised by the members of the Board of Directors of the Pro League is not as bekendraakte that the union is threatening the countries that are their competition, early stopping, are to be excluded from the participation in European competitions. During a conference call on Thursday, at which it was decided that the Jupiler League is to stop, the subject was even discussed. In the Pro League and the Belgian football association, European football then it will also let you know the leg is stiff and will keep it.
Thursday night, the European football body, UEFA, in a letter to all its member states, in which it warns that the countries that are their competition, early stopping, be excluded from participation. That timing was no coincidence: just a few hours earlier, the Belgian Jupiler Pro League is the first of the relevant European football league decided that the season is over.
Officially, the Board of Directors of the Pro League on Thursday afternoon not even have been aware of the threat, unofficially, they knew that, with the European champions thought to be a threat of exclusion from participation in European competitions. That is, the implicit threat was a Thursday afternoon talk, to which all unanimously decided it was not to be intimidated, and the competition is to be discontinued.
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After the post and his threat Thursday night to the world he made, the names of the Pro League and the Belgian football association by Friday morning, contact with the European union. In a detailed conference call for over an hour, they made it to the European voetbalbobo will be clear that, in their opinion, even after the communication of the post remains the same.
“We’re not going to agree with the approach in that league, play in their leagues to continue to do so in the current global health crisis, the penalty of exclusion from the European club competitions from next season, sounds like it’s in a press release circulated by the Belgian football federation and the Pro League. “As well as the royal belgian football association and the Pro League are big supporters of the solidarity within European football. Just from this series, calling one of our representatives for a policy that makes it possible for this situation to address, with respect to the particular context of each and every league.”
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In response to the press agency Belga said the Pro League’s spokesman, Stu, Of, On, that there was no legal basis for the Belgian clubs from UEFA competitions. “This decision is a sovereign entity in the league and the union to. As long as our own rules, but in-tact. If the resolution of the annual general meeting on 15 april, ed.). endorsed by the royal belgian football association, we will make the proper any mistakes”, tells Of the fame and fortune.
in the Next few weeks with a subsequent call to the European champions have been planned. In the Pro League and hopes that other countries will soon follow suit, so that it no longer stands alone. Therefore it is in the first instance, to the Netherlands, where there is also demand in the current season of the Premier league permanently to opt out. “We have to think quickly, following it will get. Different leagues have we already been contacted about our approach,” says Van Bever.
