{"id":46875,"date":"2025-10-09T08:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/de-jong-refuses-to-play-in-miami-criticism-of-the-laliga-barcelona-villarreal-match\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T12:09:14","slug":"de-jong-refuses-to-play-in-miami-criticism-of-the-laliga-barcelona-villarreal-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/de-jong-refuses-to-play-in-miami-criticism-of-the-laliga-barcelona-villarreal-match\/","title":{"rendered":"De Jong refuses to play in Miami: Criticism of the LaLiga Barcelona-Villarreal match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Frenkie de Jong opposes the Barcelona-Villarreal match in Miami<\/h2>\n\nBarcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong has expressed his disagreement with the decision to play the LaLiga match against Villarreal in Miami, United States, in December.\n\nLaLiga confirmed that the match, originally scheduled at Villarreal’s Estadio de la Cer\u00e1mica, will be moved to Hard Rock Stadium. This decision was made after UEFA approved the request.\n\nDe Jong argues that this measure implies more travel in an already tight schedule, and also understands the complaints of rival teams, who believe this distorts the competition.\n\n\n

I don’t like it<\/p>Frenkie de Jong<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Dutch player, who is concentrated with his national team, added that, although he understands the economic benefits for the clubs and the expansion of the brand, he would not be in favor of this initiative.\n\n\n

\"Frenkie<\/figure>\n\n\nDe Jong pointed out that the decision is not favorable for the players, as it involves a lot of travel, and that it is also unfair in terms of competition, as for them it is an away game on a neutral field.\n\nReal Madrid has criticized the decision to take a match to the United States, alleging that it will give an “undue sporting advantage” to the teams involved and sets an “unacceptable precedent”.\n\nLaLiga has been trying to move a match to the United States since 2017. The plans accelerated in August, when they finally received approval from the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).\n\nUEFA approved two requests to play matches abroad, including Barcelona and Villarreal’s match in Miami and another between Milan and Como in Perth, Australia, in February.\n\nUEFA, although opposed to the idea of playing national league matches outside their countries of origin, cited FIFA’s framework and regulations in confirming that it had accepted the proposals “exceptionally.” FIFA has formed a working group to review those regulations.\n\nThe president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, indicates that the plan is to take a league match abroad every season, not just to the United States.\n\nThe match between Barcelona and Villarreal will be the first match of the five major European leagues to be played abroad, following a model implemented by American leagues such as the NFL and NBA.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frenkie de Jong opposes the Barcelona-Villarreal match in Miami Barcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong has expressed his disagreement with the decision to play the LaLiga match against Villarreal in Miami, United States, in December. LaLiga confirmed that the match, originally scheduled at Villarreal’s Estadio de la Cer\u00e1mica, will be moved to Hard Rock Stadium. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[156,6634,158,2441],"class_list":{"0":"post-46875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-barcelona","8":"tag-frenkie-de-jong","9":"tag-laliga","10":"tag-miami"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}