Major European football league could be played in US as early as NEXT YEAR in shock move
LA LIGA president Javier Tebas insists league games will be played abroad in the US as early as 2025.
Tebas, 61, wants to hold some Spanish league games overseas come the 2025-26 season as North America is the competition’s second biggest market after Spain.
The football chief added that more leagues are trying to do the same as they also bid to expand across the globe.
Tebas told Spanish newspaper Expansion: “I think it could be in the 2025-26 season, but La Liga will play official matches abroad.
“An official match in the U.S. will strengthen our position in the North American market, which is the second market for La Liga after Spain.
“Other very competitive leagues are coming so we cannot always do the same thing, but we cannot allow them to overtake us.”
This comes after a landmark lawsuit between Fifa and US events promoter Relevent.
The American company was denied by the football governing body in its attempts to put together a La Liga fixture between Girona and Barcelona in Miami back in 2018.
Fifa referenced their directive that states domestic games should only take place in the respective country’s territory.
Relevent, which was founded by Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, argued that this rule acted as a monopoly and prevented fair competition.
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The two sides ultimately settled their case after all those years earlier this month.
That means the Americans reserve the right to reopen their litigation if Fifa do not come up with a satisfactory reconsideration of their position.
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Our beautiful game is broken, says Dave Kid
By Dave Kidd
WHEN Manchester United got lucky in their FA Cup semi-final, Antony’s first instinct was to goad heartbroken opponents Coventry. To rub their noses in the dirt.
Antony seems to be a vile individual but this isn’t really about Antony. Because Antony is merely a symptom of the hideous sickness within England’s top flight.
There is so much wrong.
After our elite clubs persuaded the FA to completely scrap Cup replays — which gave us Ronnie Radford and Ricky Villa and Ryan Giggs — without due recompense or reasoning with the rest of English football.
The previous day, after his Manchester City side had defeated Chelsea in the other FA Cup semi-final, Pep Guardiola whinged about the fixture scheduling of TV companies who effectively pay much of his £20m salary.
Up at Wolves, Guardiola’s friend and rival Mikel Arteta was playing the same sad song about fixture congestion, despite his Arsenal side having played two fewer games this season than Coventry — who don’t have £50m squad players to rotate with.
Chelsea, oh Chelsea. The one-time plaything of a Russian oligarch now owned by financially incontinent venture capitalists who have piddled £1billion on a squad of players who fight like weasels in a sack about who should bask in the personal glory of scoring the penalty that puts them 5-0 up against Everton.