La Liga regrets no go for US game

Citing “the uncertainty that has arisen in Spain over the past few weeks”, La Liga announced on Oct 21 it is scrapping plans to hold a league match between Barcelona and Villarreal in Miami in December.

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Uefa, the governing body for European football, approved the match’s move to the United States two weeks ago but did so “reluctantly”, saying it found no framework within Fifa statutes to oppose the move.

Then came player protests: La Liga players stood still for the first 15 seconds of their games over the weekend in a coordinated response by the Spanish Footballers’ Association to the league’s “lack of transparency, dialogue and coherence”.

“La Liga deeply regrets that this project, which represented a historic and unparalleled opportunity for the international expansion of Spanish football, will not be able to move forward,” the league’s statement said.