The championship game’s trip to Florida on December 20 sparked protests. And today the company that was supposed to finalize the match issued a statement announcing the cancellation
The surprise came in the first half of the Champions League matches: the La Liga match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami was cancelled. It was scheduled in less than two months, on December 20th, and according to the press release from the organizer of the Spanish championship, the about-face was decided by the company that in fact had to deal with the finalization of the match on US soil, a no “Generated by the great uncertainty generated in recent weeks in Spain by the news”.
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The trip to Florida for the La Liga match had sparked enormous controversy here in Spain, with the players’ union having agreed with its players in the last round of the championship on a 10-second stoppage of play at the start of each match, a protest which the La Liga had censored by not broadcasting the images on TV. Real Madrid were especially hard against the trip, considering it a manipulation of the competition. The news of the cancellation of the match in Miami arrived while Villarreal was playing against Manchester City, and a camera recorded live the reaction of the Managing Director of the Yellow Submarine Roig Nogueroles, visibly furious. Villarreal and Barcelona wanted to go to Miami, La Liga was very happy and is now complaining about the lost publicity opportunity.