The Soviet Superliga

For now it is only an idea, but the possibility has gained strength: the Russian Premier League is considering creating a championship where you make an appointment the former countries of the Soviet Union, and it has already received the support of the federations of Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia. The idea is to create a link with the member countries CEI (CIS) as it existed until 1991, when the USSR was dissolved when he was one of the strongest tournaments in Europe. Is this the future of European football until the creation of the European Super League hackneyed?

It is the only project under these same characteristics, and that the Baltic republics, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, have received the approval of the UEFA for the creation of a regional league, which gives hope to supporters of this proposal, as Sergei Ivanov, head of the Kremlin administration, governing body of the European Football approve this initiative, which was promoted in first by Alexei Miller, Gazprom's gas consortium president, sponsor of the Zenit.

This proposal has also already a major precedent in Russian sport, which is that the initiative and succeeded in making hockey the KHL Composed of teams from Russia, Latvia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Slovakia, in the strongest league in Europe. In football terms, the idea would be, long-term receivables, form a championship with the best teams of three to five CIS countries.

Football is undeniable attractiveness of the proposal: see the same championship strong teams like Zenit, Rubin Kazan, CSKA , Spartak or Russian Anzhi, Shakhtar, Dynamo Kiev, Ukraine Dnipro Metallist or or BATE Borisov of Belarus, who has made noise in Europe in recent seasons, would be a more than interesting on computers that are investing significant financial sums to enhance their templates: there are Eto'o's salary in Anzhi or the signings of Hulk and Witsel at Zenit.

Their owners want revenues and show, and are based on the differences between the most powerful clubs in the rest of Russia, the remainder of the tournament and spectators brightness parties. A good idea for large, but what about the rest? sure many of you are fans of teams modest, and I guess for anything you would like a Spanish league who had emigrated in Real Madrid or Barcelona to a hypothetical superior championship. It is the opposite side view of an attractive given from outside.

Also would set a precedent?? While it is true that Soviet Superliga would return to something that already existed at the time, could see in the future, for example, a Scandinavian league with the best teams in Sweden, Norway or Denmark? Would we see the Celtic in the Premier, as has been shuffled at any time? And it's no secret the amount of interest that would promote the creation of the European Super League, and neither is the crescendo of maximum continental club tournament, formerly champions fought only to the current format, where they have room to the quarter classified of the major leagues and are more likely to enter the fourth in Spain, Germany or England champion from Belgium or Switzerland, for example.

But the present case is the ambitious Russian project, a tournament that has grown in recent years and has gained in importance and resources (Russia is currently ranked seventh in the Championship) and could give an even bigger leap with adhesion important neighboring brackets. And do not forget either that will host the 2018 World Cup and win in infrastructure. Do not lose sight.

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