http://juanfutbol.com/articulo/juskani/americas-champions-league#fanpage=twitterjuanfutbol
It's in Spanish and to much for me to translate so Go Go Google translate:
"A group of prominent businessmen and specialists in organizing international competitions, headed by Riccardo Silva (MP & Silva), has launched an innovative proposal to perform the equivalent of the UEFA Champions League but in the Americas, will be called "Americas Champions League."
The ambitions of the ACL are quite clear: to create significant competition between the best clubs on the continent that gives teams a platform deployment exhibition put your football tradition, its legacy and passion of their fans under a format that is attractive, strengthen its global brand, and provide important economic returns.
The continental tournament would consist of the best 64 clubs from across the continent. Each team would enter a minimum of $ 5 million for participating in the group stage, but could reach $ 30 million home to win the championship. In total 440 million will be divided among all the participating teams. The competition format would respect the timetable for the clubs, leagues and federations registered and have a duration of between 7 and 9 months beginning in February and midweek games.
THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL
The Americas Champions League aims to exploit market size (similar to UEFA), history and regional talent, to potentiate the commercial opportunities of the clubs.
Unlike the Libertadores Cup, which has a budget of $ 69 million in prize money ($ 5.3 million for the winner), and Concachampions, which makes no economic premium, the ACL aims to have a budget of $ 440 million dollars in annual prizes to encourage participation of the clubs.
Other focal points of the ACL is to create a trading platform and global media that puts the teams in the escalofón market of world football, which will have an exponential growth in both commercial revenues and rights transmission of each club.
APPROACH WITH CLUBS
According to what juanfutbol, the organizing committee has been in contact with various clubs in South America to present the project and gather impressions about the project's viability. One is the Corinthians club, which through its president, Roberto de Andrade, has expressed support for such competition. "Corinthians have a strong interest in participating in the Americas Champions League if competition were to be performed. I think it's a great initiative for clubs and fans and can create growth and economic sustainability for teams and sport throughout the continent. "
So far, the ACL has confirmed the interest of the most popular teams in South America as a Flamengo, Corinthians, Nacional of Uruguay, Boca Juniors, River Plate and others. It also has the support of the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
The organization of the event you plan to meet soon with some Mexican teams to learn their views on this new tournament, while the United States has already begun consultations with MLS teams.
Besides Riccardo Silva, who serves as founder and president of the ACL, and is Co-founder of MP & Silva and Miami FC owner, the tournament has a strong group of promoters and organizers among them is Paul Tagliabue, ex NFL commissioner from 1989-2006, and Carlo Pozzali, Co founder of MP & Silva and who has held for more than 20 years of senior executive positions in the most influential organizations of Latin American sports industry.
While the Americas Champions League is a future project and still has no date tentative start, the fact that there is this formal proposal to bring the football on our continent to another level, it is a clear signal that exciting years are to fans and football lovers."
My only beef is I wish it was called SuperLiga and not Champion's league. But I'm interested in finding out more.
It's in Spanish and to much for me to translate so Go Go Google translate:
"A group of prominent businessmen and specialists in organizing international competitions, headed by Riccardo Silva (MP & Silva), has launched an innovative proposal to perform the equivalent of the UEFA Champions League but in the Americas, will be called "Americas Champions League."
The ambitions of the ACL are quite clear: to create significant competition between the best clubs on the continent that gives teams a platform deployment exhibition put your football tradition, its legacy and passion of their fans under a format that is attractive, strengthen its global brand, and provide important economic returns.
The continental tournament would consist of the best 64 clubs from across the continent. Each team would enter a minimum of $ 5 million for participating in the group stage, but could reach $ 30 million home to win the championship. In total 440 million will be divided among all the participating teams. The competition format would respect the timetable for the clubs, leagues and federations registered and have a duration of between 7 and 9 months beginning in February and midweek games.
THE ECONOMIC POTENTIAL
The Americas Champions League aims to exploit market size (similar to UEFA), history and regional talent, to potentiate the commercial opportunities of the clubs.
Unlike the Libertadores Cup, which has a budget of $ 69 million in prize money ($ 5.3 million for the winner), and Concachampions, which makes no economic premium, the ACL aims to have a budget of $ 440 million dollars in annual prizes to encourage participation of the clubs.
Other focal points of the ACL is to create a trading platform and global media that puts the teams in the escalofón market of world football, which will have an exponential growth in both commercial revenues and rights transmission of each club.
APPROACH WITH CLUBS
According to what juanfutbol, the organizing committee has been in contact with various clubs in South America to present the project and gather impressions about the project's viability. One is the Corinthians club, which through its president, Roberto de Andrade, has expressed support for such competition. "Corinthians have a strong interest in participating in the Americas Champions League if competition were to be performed. I think it's a great initiative for clubs and fans and can create growth and economic sustainability for teams and sport throughout the continent. "
So far, the ACL has confirmed the interest of the most popular teams in South America as a Flamengo, Corinthians, Nacional of Uruguay, Boca Juniors, River Plate and others. It also has the support of the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
The organization of the event you plan to meet soon with some Mexican teams to learn their views on this new tournament, while the United States has already begun consultations with MLS teams.
Besides Riccardo Silva, who serves as founder and president of the ACL, and is Co-founder of MP & Silva and Miami FC owner, the tournament has a strong group of promoters and organizers among them is Paul Tagliabue, ex NFL commissioner from 1989-2006, and Carlo Pozzali, Co founder of MP & Silva and who has held for more than 20 years of senior executive positions in the most influential organizations of Latin American sports industry.
While the Americas Champions League is a future project and still has no date tentative start, the fact that there is this formal proposal to bring the football on our continent to another level, it is a clear signal that exciting years are to fans and football lovers."
My only beef is I wish it was called SuperLiga and not Champion's league. But I'm interested in finding out more.
