PARIS – Bernd Reichart, the chief executive of A22 Sports Management, on March 4 presented a poll that showed 72 per cent of football fans have a favourable opinion of the European Super League project.

But regarding the promotion of the breakaway competition, a rival of Uefa’s Champions League, he said: “We still have to convince and to overcome a certain reluctantness of opening the window, change the chip in your mind, and the need for change in European football.”