‘Breaking the structure is a massive risk for football’

FOOTBALL is taking a “big risk” by playing domestic league matches overseas, FIFA president Gianni Infantino has said.

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LaLiga and Serie A have been given reluctant approval by UEFA to take a match each overseas this season, with FIFA required to give the plan the final green light.

Villarreal and Barcelona are poised to play in Miami in December, while AC Milan and Como have a match lined up in Perth, Australia, in February.

Infantino, speaking to reporters at the European Football Clubs (EFC) General Assembly in Rome, said: “We have a structure whereby we have games at national level, at continental level, and then at global level.

“And this is a structure that made football the number one sport in the world.