Citing \u201cthe uncertainty that has arisen in Spain over the past few weeks,\u201d LaLiga announced on Tuesday it was scrapping plans to hold a league match between Barcelona and Villarreal in Miami this December.<\/p>\n
Uefa, the governing body for European football, approved the match\u2019s move to the United States two weeks ago but did so \u201creluctantly,\u201d saying it found no framework within Fifa statutes to oppose the move.<\/p>\n
Then came then protests. Players stood still for the first 15 seconds of their La Liga games over the weekend in a coordinated response by the Spanish Footballers\u2019 Association to the league\u2019s \u201clack of transparency, dialogue and coherence\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cLaLiga deeply regrets that this project, which represented a historic and unparalleled opportunity for the international expansion of Spanish soccer, will not be able to move forward,\u201d the league\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHolding an official match outside our borders would have been a decisive step in the global growth of the competition, strengthening the international presence of clubs, the positioning of players, and the visibility of Spanish soccer in a strategic market such as the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe project fully complied with all federative regulations and did not affect the integrity of the competition, as confirmed by the competent institutions responsible for ensuring compliance, which opposed it for other reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n
The league\u2019s statement went on to say that \u201crenouncing such opportunities\u201d to find new markets \u201chinders the generation of new income\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citing \u201cthe uncertainty that has arisen in Spain over the past few weeks,\u201d LaLiga announced on Tuesday it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5008,13227,12812,10896,13230,13234,5010,123,1763,2431,125,5079,124,13231,13228,13229,13232,13233,4571,9578],"class_list":["post-15298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-barcelona","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-fifa","tag-frenkie-de-jong","tag-hansi-flick","tag-hard-rock-stadium","tag-la-liga","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miami-gardens","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-news","tag-relevent","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-spanish-footballers-association","tag-stephen-ross","tag-uefa","tag-united-states","tag-villarreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}