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La Liga to go Abroad

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Sad day for the game and you feel the start of worse things to come.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45209407

 

La Liga: Spanish top flight to stage competitive game in USA

 

 

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Barcelona's Lionel Messi is one of the biggest stars in La Liga

A Spanish top-flight game will be played in the US, the first time a La Liga match has taken place overseas.

The plan is part of a 15-year partnership between La Liga and media company Relevent, which organises the International Champions Cup, to promote football in North America.

La Liga president Javier Tebas called it a "ground-breaking agreement".

The Premier League has previously discussed plans to play a '39th game' outside England and Wales.

But executive chairman Richard Scudamore, who proposed the idea in 2008, said it could not happen "until the conditions are right".

La Liga told BBC Sport it "can not confirm the teams, match, date or season" for the US-based fixture.

On Sunday, the Spanish Super Cup was played in Morocco, the first time it has been played outside Spain.

"This extraordinary joint venture is the next giant leap in growing soccer's popularity in North America," said Stephen Ross, chairman and owner of Relevent.

"This unique relationship will create new opportunities for millions of North American soccer fans to experience the most passionate, exciting, and highest level of soccer in the world."

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Scudamore will be rubbing his hands with glee at this, trying to explain how we need to follow suit because it'll make the national team better.

 

Any leagues that indulge in this should be considered to have transitioned from genuine sporting competition to circus.

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15 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

You'd like to think it would be met with too much resistance here to actually go through with it but we do still have a dangerous amount of armchair fans.

We'd all be complicit as well, if Leicester played a league game in the USA we all know 99% of the people on here would still watch it. Premier League football is an addiction and we can't get enough of it.

 

The only way we can stop these things is by not paying for it but we still will, whatever they do.

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It was to be expected. FIFA and their respective governing bodies will continue to encourage football associations into this because North America especially is adopting the global game, and it's an enormous, largely untapped market. All about moneh, innit.

 

It's inevitable that it'll happen to the Premier League sooner or later. 

 

Anyone know any decent boozers for our home game against Burnley in Miami?

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8 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Deary me. Not only does it take away a game from the Spanish fans, it'll also encourage Americans to support Real Madrid/Barcelona instead of an MLS team.

 

This is the dumbest part - the MLS is going really well at the moment isn't it?

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5 minutes ago, Detroit Blues said:

It certainly does feel that way.

 

To be fair, we all thought the same thing when the NFL decided it was a good idea to play games in London. 

And I've attended many of these games so again I'm part of the problem.

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14 minutes ago, RonnieTodger said:

Deary me. Not only does it take away a game from the Spanish fans, it'll also encourage Americans to support Real Madrid/Barcelona instead of an MLS team.

It won't harm the growth of the MLS, its growing and will continue to, there are fans in the US who have a favourite European team but that won't stop them supporting an MLS side also.

 

As for promoting soccer in the US, or helping the national side, a load of bull, we all know why this is happening.

 

As NFL and NBA games have been played over here this will happen more and more whether that be British football games played abroad or more American sports playing games over here.

 

It's a huge money earner and fans are of little consequence.  It's the future.

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8 minutes ago, Out Foxed said:

dunno why the FA don't just do this with the charity shield

That would seem a likely stalking horse, given the French and Italian super cups gave been played abroad for years.  It would confirm a large appetite for meaningful games, and open the gate.

 

The ICC types have hit the limits of hyping summer friendlies.  Attendance (per match) started to drop this year.  They will want the real thing.
 

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Won’t happen in the Prem. 

 

PL will effectively make themselves as the true home of football. Or some other silly shite. 

 

Be lucky if it last two years; there’s only two clubs what could sell out a stadium in the US, Atleti what would do it in the right place and Valencia maybe pull in a fullish ground. The rest will be played in front of crowds below the average MLS game 

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10 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Won’t happen in the Prem. 

 

PL will effectively make themselves as the true home of football. Or some other silly shite. 

 

Be lucky if it last two years; there’s only two clubs what could sell out a stadium in the US, Atleti what would do it in the right place and Valencia maybe pull in a fullish ground. The rest will be played in front of crowds below the average MLS game 

Atlanta average 50,000 (and have had over 70,000), Seattle despite being awful get over 40,000 a week, the odd prem or la liga games would sell out big grounds easily.

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1 minute ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

Won’t happen in the Prem. 

 

PL will effectively make themselves as the true home of football. Or some other silly shite. 

 

Be lucky if it last two years; there’s only two clubs what could sell out a stadium in the US, Atleti what would do it in the right place and Valencia maybe pull in a fullish ground. The rest will be played in front of crowds below the average MLS game 

 

Good point. There's not a lot of fan interest to see Real Betis play Levante. Although you could probably make the same comparison to the Premier League. How many people are going to shell out $80 to watch Cardiff City against Southampton? That said, the teams that are big in the US: Liverpool, Arsenal, Man U, Real, Barca, etc. would sell out 100k+ stadiums in a competitive match. 

 

The one thing I haven't seen mention is Relevent's nefarious intent in all of this. They are the organizers of the ICC. They brought La Liga competitive matches to the US, and you know that next on their docket of maximizing profit is creating the so called "Super League." This would effectively neuter the premier league, as the biggest clubs would leave to join up with the other mega-popular clubs from around the world to play in an international league with games hosted in all of the world's biggest cities.  

 

 

 

 

 

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