Australian soccer star Craig Foster weighs in on the Big Six’s bid to form a European Super League – as he praises his country’s fans for their ‘venomous’ reaction to the proposals
Former Socceroo Craig Foster has weighed in on the Big Six’s bid to form a European Super League.
Twelve teams, including six from England, intend to create and govern their own European competition, much to the incredulity of fans and leagues across the continent.
Foster said the ‘earthquake’ announcement goes against the founding principles of the last 150 years.
‘As many people know, sporting competitions in the US and even here in Australia at times, including our A-League and W-league and others, are closed competitions that is there’s no promotion and relegation, no opportunity to get in,’ he explained.
‘European football, in fact most of world football doesn’t work that way so now you’ve got a European clubs association with over 200 clubs across Europe and just a very elite group, who want to close off and create their own Super League where they play mid week.
‘The problem with that is it doesn’t allow the rest of the clubs either in England or across Europe to be able to get into that elite competition.’