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TylerDurden
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 Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 6:47 pm Post subject: UEFA Cup name change |
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more money grabbing by uefa
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The Uefa Cup could be on the verge of being re-branded.
It could soon be called the Uefa Europa League as football's bosses seek to give the competition fresh appeal.
European soccer's governing body Uefa is considering the name change as it seeks to reverse a feeling it has become 'a second class competition'.
The proposed name change was revealed by Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the acting chairman of the new European Clubs Association, whose organisation was presented with the proposal on Monday.
Refreshment
Rummenigge said: "The hope is that a refreshment of the name and brand can help achieve better results than we've seen in the Uefa Cup in the past.
"There has been a general impression that it has become a second-class competition and that we should get back to how it was ten or 15 years ago."
Uefa's executive committee is set to vote on the name change when it meets in Bordeaux in September.
Confirming the vote, a senior Uefa source added the new name was meant to better reflect the new group stage system being used in the competition from the 2009-10 season.
Copy
This new system is a direct copy of UEFA's more successful Champions League competition and will see the dropping of the unpopular five-team groups in which teams play each opponent just once either home or away in favour of a simpler home and away system.
In another lesson learned from the lucrative Champions League, UEFA will also be marketing the competition centrally from 2009. |
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johnhug08
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| are they just going to ignore the fact that it IS in fact a secondary competition to the CL?
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PD McGee
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| Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a good idea in my view. There is a need to freshen up that competition.
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KRHimself
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| PD McGee wrote: |
| It's a good idea in my view. There is a need to freshen up that competition. |
Indeed, especially after the scum tried to run roughshod over it!
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johnhug08
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:26 am Post subject: |
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this cup is a fucking snoozefest no matter what you call it, i could care less about the 4th runners up from france going against san marinos cup champions
even when we were in the finals a few years back, i would have taken the quarters or mayber even round of 16 in the CL over that
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TylerDurden
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Didnt they change the name and re-organize the competition after the huns were in it last time in the 70s?
can anyone tell me?
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rut
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| Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| TylerDurden wrote: |
Didnt they change the name and re-organize the competition after the huns were in it last time in the 70s?
can anyone tell me? |
The huns won the Cup Winner's Cup. And that competition kept going on until after the 1998/99 season when it merged with the Uefa Cup.
As far as I know, the Cup Winner's Cup has always been known by that name. The Uefa Cup however did take the place of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup at the start of the 1971 season.
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J-Rod
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no matter what happens the UEFA Cup will always be looked at as the NIT tournament of football
that's just what it is. those that care about it, or are interested in the football will pay attention. they have a better chance of arousing interest from "non-users" for the CL than the UEFA Cup. people not interested in the game will be more likely to watch the CL
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