Aleksander Ceferin of UEFA has been talking of moving the Champions League final to the USA, a reminder that no-one has the best interests of fans at heart. twoht
If the comments of UEFA head Aleksander Ceferin about the possibility of moving the Champions League final to be played in the USA are useful in any way, it’s as a reminder that in the ongoing battle between European football’s governing body and those would like to break away and form a, there are no good guys. Speaking to the Men in Blazers podcast, Ceferin was happy to confirm that UEFA would look into it once the 2024 final and the 2025 final are over and done with.
But Ceferin also backed up his claims with two interesting claims about television audiences, so let’s take a quick look at those. This is just plainly untrue or, it might be argued, at the very best disingenuous. The US television audience for the final of Euro 2020 was just short of 6.5m, peaking at 8.2m during the penalty shootout, while audiences for the six games that made up the 2021 NBA finals varied from 8.56m to 12.52m per game. The figures for the year before were lower – between 5.64m and 8.
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