LaLiga announced that the Villarreal-Barcelona match, planned to be played in Miami on December 20, has been cancelled.
After negotiations with the organizer of the match, the league management announced that the match will not be played in Miami due to the uncertainty in Spain in recent weeks.
“LaLiga deeply regrets that this project, which represents a historic and unprecedented opportunity for the international expansion of Spanish football, cannot be realized,” LaLiga said in a statement. It was said.
According to the information in MARCA’s news; The plan to play a LaLiga match outside Spain caused great reaction in the football world. Particularly the objections of the Footballers’ Association (AFE) and the players were decisive in making this decision.
In the matches played in LaLiga last weekend, the players took a 15-second pause at the beginning of the matches to show their reaction to this plan.
Thus, the Villarreal-Barcelona match, which was planned to be played at the Hard Rock Stadium, was canceled and LaLiga’s plan to play the league match in the USA was unsuccessful.
beinsports.com.tr / Foreign News
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