The situation
The first Clasico of the season will be played on July 23 in Las Vegas and the ‘no tickets’ sign has already been hung. The 65,000 locations of the Allegiant Stadium have sold out in just one week. The same expectation has aroused the other two Real Madrid games in the United States and the stadiums in Los Angeles and San Francisco will also overflow. There will also be a full house in which Barcelona and Juventus will play in the mythical Cotton Bowl, in Dallas.
The details
None of this is by chance. Good news for the big three in Europe, who are the locomotives of the Super League. The three aforementioned clubs (Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus) are convened on July 12 in Luxembourg for the hearing in which the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) will decide on the issue raised by the Commercial Court 17 of Madrid, who wants the Curia Europa to clarify whether UEFA enjoys a monopoly, something prohibited in any activity and under any format throughout the territory of the European Union and if, therefore, the Super League has a free hand not only to exist also to develop. UEFA has tried to stop the July 12 hearing. But the titular magistrate of the case, Sofía Gil, knocked down the petition last week because she considers that the substance of the matter goes beyond a commercial dispute and that it should be the CJEU that resolves the preliminary ruling on the monopoly and the dominant position of UEFA raised from its Court. This argument is the same one defended by Fernando Izurzun, a state attorney on leave, a partner in the Clifford Chance law firm and a defender of the Super League. As July 12 approaches, the parties are taking positions. The president of PSG, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, does not miss an opportunity to charge against the Super League.