La Liga players to stage on-field protest over decision to play league game in US | La Liga

La Liga gamers will protest this weekend the league’s choice to carry an everyday season sport in Miami, the Spanish soccer gamers’ union stated on Friday.

Gamers plan to pause for 15 seconds after kickoff in video games within the ninth spherical held from Friday via Monday, Spanish media reported.

The gamers’ union stated in an announcement that the “gamers will protest in a symbolic trend to denounce the shortage of transparency, dialogue and coherence of La Liga concerning the opportunity of enjoying a sport in the USA.”

La Liga made official final week its plans to carry a the Barcelona-Villarreal sport in Miami on 20 December.

The union stated the captains of the 20 top-flight sides have been in settlement with the protest. However the union added it had not requested the Barcelona and Villarreal gamers to take part within the protest, regardless that, the union stated “they share the fundamental premise of the protest.”

The ninth spherical kicked off on Friday with Oviedo internet hosting Espanyol.

Earlier Friday, Barcelona coach Hansi Flick and his gamers weren’t happy at having to journey 7,200km (4,500 miles) to play an everyday season sport.

“My gamers usually are not comfortable, I’m not comfortable, however La Liga determined that we are going to play this sport,” Flick stated at a press convention in reply to a query about his place on the sport.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has defended the transfer by saying it represents a possibility to additional push into the American sports activities market.

However for Flick and his gamers, it represents added journey earlier than a brief winter break. Barcelona can even journey to Saudi Arabia for the Spanish Tremendous Cup beginning on 7 January.

Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong additionally criticized enjoying the sport within the US, saying gamers have been already overloaded with journey and a packed enjoying calendar.

Like Barcelona, Villarreal have been additionally enjoying within the Champions League.

La Liga president Javier Tebas has defended the sport overseas as a key to boosting “revenues within the mid- to long-term” and growing the worth of his competitors’s tv rights, which lag behind these of England’s Premier League.

Tebas stated the league plans to make a global match an annual occasion.

The match will probably be at Laborious Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, residence of the NFL’s Miami Dolphins.

The league has chartered planes to take to Florida what it estimates will probably be 2,000 to three,000 followers from Villarreal, which is the house group.