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Javier Tebas in an interview

REVIVE THE LALIGA INITIATIVE

FC Barcelona works with LaLiga to play in the United States

Published:5/08/2024 - 02:06h

Updated:5/08/2024 - 02:07h

FC Barcelona and LaLiga want to reactivate the possibility of playing domestic competition matches in the United States. The president of the employer's association said that they are working to achieve it, although he clarified that they still have to solve some issues

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The FC Barcelona and LaLiga reactivated the possibility to play the domestic competition in United States. As 'Sportive World', sources of the Catalan institution chaired by Joan Laporta confirmed that they are working in the subject. The president of the patronal, Javier Thebes, also said publicly that are advancing to concretise the project, although it recognised that they still had to resolve some problems to be able to execute the project.

The manager of the Spanish competition think that the most likely is that they concretise this plan in the season 2025-26 and no in this course that is about to to begin. The Barça and the patronal began to move after the modification that announced the FIFA. The past month of May, the maximum organisation of the football informed that it goes to create a commission to make an analysis of the rule that regulates the subject.

At present, the Regulation of the FIFA establishes that this type of meetings are authority of the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF). However, the modification leaves to glimpse that now this situation of the parties does not depend on the organisation chaired by Pedro Rocha. It fits to remember that during the course 2018-19 tried to carry out this initiative, but fracasaron and the subject happened to a flat second.

An attempt fallido six years ago

In September of 2018, LaLiga announced that the party FC Barcelona-Girona would contest in United States, specifically in the Hard Rock Stadium of Miami. Both clubs were in favour of the proposal to play far of Spain. However, the RFEF opuso to the change and the party was not played in North America. To finals of the past year, the possibility to reopen the road went back to be on the table after the exit of the maximum mandator of the Spanish football, Luis Rubiales. In any case, now only is missing to see if in this occasion the project concrete.