Real Madrid rejects idea of Barcelona playing in Messi’s Miami

Real Madrid has said that it “firmly rejects” having a regular-season Spanish league crippled played successful the United States and warned of “a turning constituent successful the satellite of football”.

Villarreal, successful contrast, is promising escaped question and tickets for season-ticket holders if its lucifer against Barcelona successful Miami is approved, successful what would beryllium a archetypal for the league. The 17th-round lucifer successful La Liga would beryllium played astatine Hard Rock Stadium, the location of Barca fable Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami.

Madrid said connected Tuesday that it has taken enactment to support the December 20 lucifer from happening successful the US, claiming it would wounded the “integrity of the competition” and the “legitimacy of the results”.

“The measure, which was taken without anterior accusation oregon consultation of the clubs participating successful the competition, infringes the indispensable rule of territorial reciprocity, which applies successful two-legged league competitions (one lucifer astatine location and the different astatine the location of the opposing team), upsetting the competitory equilibrium and giving an undue sporting vantage to the applicant clubs,” Madrid said.

The nine said the lucifer would acceptable “an unacceptable precedent that opens the doorway to exceptions based connected non-sporting interests, intelligibly affecting sporting integrity and risking the adulteration of the competition”.

“If this connection were to beryllium carried out, its consequences would beryllium truthful superior that it would beryllium a turning constituent successful the satellite of football,” Madrid said.

The Europe-wide instrumentality radical Football Supporters Europe (FSE) said it was “liaising” with members, shot stakeholders, affected groups and spouse organisations to “collectively defy the latest menace to the precise quality of football”.

“We are pursuing the broader interaction connected shot with the utmost concern,” the radical said. “Moving games from their home territories strikes astatine the bosom of the narration betwixt fans and their teams, breaking captious links betwixt clubs and their communities.”

The radical besides criticised a akin determination by the Italian league to play a lucifer abroad.

The Italian shot federation said successful July that a program was successful question to play the Serie A lucifer betwixt AC Milan and Como successful the Australian metropolis of Perth successful February.

Madrid asks FIFA and UEFA to withhold support for Barcelona game

Madrid said it has asked FIFA, UEFA and Spain’s apical athletics assemblage to not authorise the crippled successful the US. The Spanish shot federation connected Monday approved a petition for the match to beryllium played successful Miami. UEFA and FIFA present person to o.k. the petition earlier it tin beryllium made official.

“Any modification of this quality must, successful immoderate case, person the explicit and unanimous statement of each the clubs participating successful the competition, arsenic good arsenic strictly respecting the nationalist and planetary rules governing the enactment of authoritative competitions,” Madrid said.

Madrid and the Spanish league president, Javier Tebas, person often been astatine likelihood connected assorted issues.

The nine said UEFA should contradict the petition to play the crippled abroad, based connected the “criterion established successful 2018 that prevents authoritative matches successful home competitions from being played extracurricular nationalist territory, but successful duly justified exceptional circumstances, which are not contiguous here”.

Madrid said it asked the country’s precocious athletics assembly “not to assistance the indispensable administrative authorization without specified unanimous consent”.

“Real Madrid reaffirms its committedness to respect the nationalist and planetary rules that warrant the fairness and due functioning of authoritative competitions, and volition support its compliance with them earlier each competent bodies,” the nine said.

Villarreal hoping to grow its marque successful US

Villarreal earlier connected Tuesday said that its play ticket-holders tin question for escaped and person escaped tickets for the match. It said those who bash not privation to go, oregon cannot go, volition get a 20 percent discount connected their play tickets.

“We would beryllium the archetypal [Spanish] squad to play a league lucifer abroad,” Villarreal’s president, Fernando Roig, told a quality conference. “It would greatly assistance america grow our marque successful a cardinal marketplace similar the United States.”

Staging a lucifer overseas has agelong been portion of the league’s extremity to beforehand shot and its marque successful different countries.

It archetypal tried to signifier a lucifer successful the US successful 2018, with a crippled betwixt Barcelona and Girona, but the thought was dismissed aft disapproval from players, fans and clubs. Subsequent attempts to play determination besides failed.

The league had offered compensation packages for Girona fans successful 2018.

It was not wide whether it would beryllium Villarreal oregon the league paying for the question and tickets for the club’s fans this time.

The attempts to play successful the US are portion of the league’s semipermanent concern with athletics and amusement radical Relevent Sports, which is portion of Stephen Ross’s portfolio of companies, including Hard Rock Stadium, the Miami Dolphins, the Formula One’s Miami Grand Prix and the Miami Open tennis tournament.

Earlier this year, it was announced that New York-based Relevent Sports has exclusive negotiating rights implicit the planetary commercialized rights to the UEFA men’s nine competitions for the play 2027-2033.

FIFA moved past twelvemonth towards ending decades of shot contented by ordering a reappraisal of its argumentation that blocks home league games from being played successful different countries.

Some instrumentality groups successful Spain and the country’s players’ relation connected Monday expressed their disapproval of the program to determination the lucifer thousands of kilometres away.

It has go routine, though, for US pro athletics leagues to signifier games successful Europe, Asia and South America that assistance physique their brands and instrumentality bases.