{"id":365913,"date":"2021-06-21T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=365913"},"modified":"2021-06-21T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:30:15","slug":"barcelona-president-laporta-refuses-to-apologize-to-uefa-over-super-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=365913","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona president, Laporta refuses to apologize to UEFA over Super League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, has said they will not apologize to UEFA over the failed European Super League.<br \/>\nAccording to him, the Spanish club wants to control their own destiny.<br \/>\nBarca members were to vote on participation in the breakaway competition at the club\u2019s general assembly on Sunday.<br \/>\nBut Laporta, who insists the plans are still alive, said that would not be necessary as the proposed format no longer exists.<br \/>\nBarcelona president, Laporta reveals why Messi is yet to sign new contract<br \/>\n\u201cWe spoke with the clubs [involved] and said we liked [the proposals], but that we needed them to accept that our members would have to approve entry at the next assembly,\u201d Laporta said as he explained the reasoning for signing up.<br \/>\n\u201cIt was logical to have that vote before June 30. But now, as the format doesn\u2019t exist, I won\u2019t ask you to vote. But the project is alive, I insist.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re still trying to enter into dialogue with UEFA. We won\u2019t apologise for trying to organise a competition. We won\u2019t say sorry to UEFA for wanting to be the owners of our own destiny. At least not while I am president.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, has said they will not apologize to UEFA over the failed European Super League. According to him, the Spanish club wants to control their own destiny. Barca members were to vote on participation in the breakaway competition at the club\u2019s general assembly on Sunday. But Laporta, who insists the plans are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,15461,2398],"class_list":["post-365913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-barcelona","tag-koeman","tag-messi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/365914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}