Laporta’s correct predictions about the Super League almost 20 years ago: this is what he told Lendoiro

the idea super league It’s not a current whim. The project has been slowly progressing for at least 20 years. Just play the documentary “Barça Confidential” to hear what Barça Confidential thinks. Joan Laporta In it he already talked about the European competition to end the monopoly in football.dialogue with Augusto Cesar LendoiroHe was then president of Deportivo de A Coruña and established himself as a great player in La Liga, even appearing in the Champions League.

“The other day I was in Brussels and they said that strong clubs have to organize a Europa League. Commercially it’s very interesting,” the Barça president said in an image included in the aforementioned documentary. He commented to Lendoiro and explained Laporta’s first season as Curé coach.president

The president at the time was sports I acknowledged that it was an idea that had already been discussed. “But it is not easy to put it into practice,” the Galician leader pointed out. “We have to study this. If the strong clubs understand it well, we will have to take a decision. We have to build Europe and remain The last monopoly is the monopoly of football,” Laporta concluded.