{"id":53479,"date":"2025-10-17T16:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/laliga-player-protests-over-miami-match-no-live-broadcast\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:06:19","slug":"laliga-player-protests-over-miami-match-no-live-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/laliga-player-protests-over-miami-match-no-live-broadcast\/","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga: Player protests over Miami match, no live broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Protests in LaLiga: Players Oppose Match in Miami<\/h2>\n\n\nLaLiga players initiated protests against the league&#8217;s decision to play a regular season match in Miami. However, the first protest, which took place on Friday, was not broadcast live as expected.\n\nThe televised broadcast of the match between Real Oviedo and Espanyol was cut off outside the stadium during the first 25 seconds of the game. At that moment, the players stopped for the first 15 seconds in protest against the plans to take a match to the United States.\n\nThis meeting took place a few hours after the Spanish footballers&#8217; union announced that protests would be held at the start of the matches of the ninth matchday, from Friday to Monday.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Spanish players&#8217; union opposes the Bar\u00e7a match in the US.<\/li><li>Bar\u00e7a in Miami: Why FIFA and UEFA allow leagues to play abroad<\/li><li>LaLiga confirms the historic Bar\u00e7a match in the US.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\nIn a statement, the players&#8217; union stated that &#8220;the players will protest symbolically to denounce the lack of transparency, dialogue and coherence of LaLiga with respect to the possibility of playing a match in the United States&#8221;.\n\nLaLiga made official last week its plans to hold the Barcelona-Villarreal match in Miami on December 20.\n\nThe union added that the captains of the 20 first division teams agreed with the protest, although they had not asked the players of Barcelona and Villarreal to participate, despite the fact that they &#8220;share the basic premise of the protest&#8221;.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1017%2Fr1561660_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Real Oviedo and Espanyol players stop to protest the decision to hold the LaLiga match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami in December.<\/em>\n\nBarcelona hosts Girona and Villarreal hosts Real Betis on Saturday.\n\nOn Friday, Barcelona coach Hansi Flick and his players expressed their dissatisfaction at having to travel 7,200 kilometers to play a regular season match.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>My players are not happy, I am not happy, but LaLiga decided that we will play this match.<\/p><cite>Hansi Flick<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe president of Barcelona, Joan Laporta, defended the measure arguing that it represents an opportunity to further boost the American sports market.\n\nFor Flick and his players, this means an additional trip before a short winter break. Barcelona will also travel to Saudi Arabia for the Spanish Super Cup, which will begin on January 7.\n\nBarcelona midfielder Frenkie de Jong also criticized the celebration of the match in the United States, stating that the players were already overloaded with travel and a very tight schedule.\n\nJust like Barcelona, Villarreal was also playing in the Champions League.\n\nThe president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, has defended the match abroad as key to increasing &#8220;medium and long-term income&#8221; and increasing the value of the television rights of his competition.\n\nTebas said that the league plans to turn an international match into an annual event.\n\nThe match will be played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, home of the NFL&#8217;s Miami Dolphins.\n\nThe league has chartered planes to transport to Florida what it estimates will be between 2,000 and 3,000 Villarreal fans, who are the home team.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests in LaLiga: Players Oppose Match in Miami LaLiga players initiated protests against the league&#8217;s decision to play a regular season match in Miami. However, the first protest, which took place on Friday, was not broadcast live as expected. The televised broadcast of the match between Real Oviedo and Espanyol was cut off outside the [&hellip;]<\/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":[158,2441,604,4200],"class_list":{"0":"post-53479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-laliga","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-players","10":"tag-protest"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53479","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=53479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}