{"id":57659,"date":"2025-10-22T09:46:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/laliga-cancels-barcelona-vs-villarreal-match-in-miami-what-happened\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:46:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:46:33","slug":"laliga-cancels-barcelona-vs-villarreal-match-in-miami-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/laliga-cancels-barcelona-vs-villarreal-match-in-miami-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"LaLiga Cancels Barcelona vs. Villarreal Match in Miami: What Happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

LaLiga Cancels Match in Miami between Villarreal and Barcelona<\/h2>\n\n\nLaLiga has suspended its plans to hold a regular season match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami this December, according to the league itself announced on Tuesday. The decision was made by Relevent, LaLiga’s partner in the North American market, due to the reaction generated in Spain by the proposal to play a league match on foreign territory.\n\n\n
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“LaLiga deeply regrets that this project, which represented a historic and unprecedented opportunity for the internationalization of Spanish football, cannot be carried out.”<\/p>\n\nLaLiga<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe project complied with the federation’s regulations and did not affect the integrity of the competition, as confirmed by the competent institutions, which opposed it for other reasons.\n\nRelevent confirmed that they informed LaLiga of the need to postpone the match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami on December 20. “Given the current uncertainty in Spain, there is not enough time to properly execute an event of this scale. It would also be irresponsible to start selling tickets without a confirmed match,” they explained.\n\n\n

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El Hard Rock Stadium ya no albergar\u00e1 el partido de LaLiga entre el Barcelona y el Villarreal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe advance ticket sale was delayed, attributed to a technical problem.\n\nThe initiative faced opposition from players, fan groups, and Real Madrid, who requested that FIFA, UEFA, and the Spanish Ministry of Sports (CSD) block the plans.\n\nThe match between Villarreal and Barcelona was going to be the first regular season match of one of the five major European leagues to be held abroad.\n\nBarcelona regretted the decision to cancel the match.\n\n\n
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“Barcelona regrets the lost opportunity to expand the image of the competition to a strategic market with growth capacity and resource generation for the benefit of all”.<\/p>\n\nFC Barcelona<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nVillarreal coach Marcelino Garc\u00eda Toral criticized the timing of LaLiga’s announcement, which coincided with his team’s 2-0 defeat to Manchester City in the Champions League. Real Madrid’s Thibaut Courtois also joined the criticism, stating that playing in Miami “would totally affect the integrity of the competition.”\n\nFrenkie de Jong, from Barcelona, had stated that the plan “was not good for the players”, citing travel fatigue and concerns about fairness. Coach Hansi Flick admitted that neither he nor his team were “happy”.\n\nLaLiga had worked for a long time to hold a regular season match in the United States, with an initial proposal involving a match between Girona and Barcelona in the 2018-19 season. UEFA had approved the match in Miami “grudgingly”, while Real Madrid called it an “unacceptable precedent”.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LaLiga Cancels Match in Miami between Villarreal and Barcelona LaLiga has suspended its plans to hold a regular season match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami this December, according to the league itself announced on Tuesday. The decision was made by Relevent, LaLiga’s partner in the North American market, due to the reaction generated in […]<\/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":[156,158,2441,948],"class_list":{"0":"post-57659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-barcelona","8":"tag-laliga","9":"tag-miami","10":"tag-party"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57659","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=57659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}