Rodolfo Hecht, president of the Milan-based sports marketing group, said he was awaiting a ruling from the European Union before taking action.
Media Partners filed a complaint with the European Commission in October last year claiming that UEFA, European soccer's governing body which runs the two major European club competitions, had infringed EU competition rules by preventing them from organizing a new Super League.
?We are waiting for the ruling from Brussels and when we get it we will go back to the field,? said Hecht.
Hecht said he expects a ruling from the EU in `early 2000? and that he was confident of a decision in his favor. ?You can't tell people they can't play football,? he said.
Media Partners held talks with leading clubs including AC Milan and Manchester United in 1998 as they sought to build support for a breakaway league.
FIFA threatened national associations, clubs and players with suspension if they linked up with the proposed Super League.
UEFA finally killed the plan by expanding their premier competition, the Champions League, offering clubs a greater slice of television and sponsorship revenue, and upping prize money.
Although the clubs eventually united behind the UEFA banner there have still been noises of discontent.
In October Real Madrid president Lorenzo Sanz, the secretary and de facto leader of the so-called G-14 group of elite clubs, said he was unhappy with the division of television income from the Champions League.
?UEFA are playing around with us and we are not disposed to let them do it,? Sanz told Spanish sports daily Marca.
A month earlier AC Milan president Silvio Berlusconi, a long time supporter of a European super league, said the current Champions League was ?only a transitional formula until we arrive at a real and proper European league.?
Reuters
