[NEWS]UEFA重申堅持唔會改例比利物浦參加下屆歐聯
UEFA而家再次重申無意改例比利物浦參加下屆歐聯
UEFA既發言人William Gaillard同BBC電台5台講:我好同情利物浦,我都好想佢地係度,但係我地有規例
,另外我地無法改變利物浦既聯賽排名,再加上係英足總話愛華頓係以第四晉身歐聯外圍賽
再講番起00-01年皇家馬德里以第五完成聯賽,但係有得參加歐聯就係因為西班牙方面皇馬代替左薩拉戈薩個位
而利物浦領隊賓拿迪斯就重申利物浦應該被批準參加下屆既歐聯賽事
並且講:我地拎左歐聯,尼個係好常識地咁勝出者好應該有得衛冕。
最後,AC米蘭領隊安寮洛提都表態支持利物浦下年有得參加歐聯,並且衛冕
Uefa has insisted it has no plans to change its rules to allow Liverpool to defend their Champions League crown.
The Reds finished fifth in the Premiership - a place outside automatic qualification for the Champions League.
"I fully sympathise with the club and I would love to have them in there - but we have rules," Uefa spokesman William Gaillard told BBC Radio Five Live.
"We can't change them in the middle of the season. The FA has said Everton are the fourth English club to qualify."
Gaillard insisted that the precedent set in the 2000-01 season, when Real Madrid defended the trophy despite finishing fifth because the Spanish football federation decided to hand them Real Zaragoza's place, would make no difference.
But the English Football Assoctiation has pledged its support to Liverpool's quest for a Champions League place after the breathtaking win over AC Milan in Istanbul.
"We'll be keeping up a dialogue with Uefa, which we have been for the last couple of months," said FA chief executive Brian Barwick.
"What Uefa has, and I sympathise with it to a degree, is a situation where it is faced with not having its own champions in its own competition which is called the Champions League.
"Liverpool finished outside the top four. I think the FA was right and proper to put the top four in to the Champions League.
"We are more in a situation now of how do we, for good sporting reasons, find a way to persuade Uefa that it should find room for Liverpool?" added Barwick.
And Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez insisted his team should be allowed back into the Champions League next season.
"We have won the trophy. It is common sense that the winner should defend the title," said Benitez.
"It's quite unbelievable to even consider that a side who will play in the European Super Cup as well as the World Club Championship next season should not be allowed back into the Champions League."
Meanwhile, Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry has also made his own plea to Uefa: "Look at the support, the worldwide audience and the game.
"I think we have to be given a shot. We are worthy champions and I think that's what the world will say."
Liverpool get to keep the European Cup trophy after winning it for the fifth time by beating AC Milan on penalties.
But their participation in the competition has been in doubt since the Football Association decided that the top four in the Premiership would take up England's places next season.
Parry added: "At least we get to keep this one so they can't take it back off us if nothing else.
"You wouldn't have given a lot for our chances at half-time but the boys were absolutely magnificent.
"It's good to win it for the supporters because they were magnificent."
And Reds skipper Steven Gerrard added: "It is called the Champions League so the champions should be able to defend it."
AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti said: "Yes, I think they should be allowed to defend the title."
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發表於 2005-5-27 01:06 AM
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