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Growing government interference and investor issues are among the biggest future challenges for football, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has said. Speaking in an interview with dpa, Ceferin said that sports and European laws were compatible as he defended the autonomy of sport. “Sport is different from selling Pespi Cola or Coca Cola,” he said, insisting that “the sports system has worked for 100 years.” The European Court of Justice and a Spanish court have ruled that Europe’s UEFA and the world governing body FIFA could not use their position to threaten clubs and players for participatin…

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