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10th June 2022, 01:10 PM
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Top two Uefa executives went to playoff final day after Champions League chaos
- Theodoridis and Marchetti stuck with plan to go to Wembley
- Uefa defends decision, saying they were fully across Paris fallout
Uefa has defended the decision of its two most senior executives to leave Paris early the day after the Champions League final descended into horror and chaos, to watch the EFL Championship playoff final at Wembley.
Theodore Theodoridis, Uefa’s general secretary – the equivalent of chief executive – and his deputy Giorgio Marchetti were guests of the EFL at the final between Nottingham Forest and Huddersfield. Theodoridis and Marchetti were in the dignitaries’ seats at Wembley, after the scenes in Paris where thousands of supporters were held in distressingly long queues and many were teargassed by French police and violently attacked by local thugs around the Stade de France.
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