toOne day, it may be difficult to determine the exact moment in which football completely lost the silhouette that contained loosely in its shape. When its ruling bodies are finally left, hand over the horses. When the last line, which holds the gravity of self -grinding sport, was free to do everything they want. When the literal critics were ultimately right and the game went completely.
Or perhaps we will know specifically when it was: October 6, 2025, when the UEFA Executive Committee announced an unusual edition that it opposes the domestic league matches that are played abroad – with two of them allowing “on an exceptional basis.” Barcelona and Villarreal will organize the apparent La Liga game in Miami in December. Milan and Komo will play the first division match in Barth, Australia-a trip for only 20 hours from Italy in February.
In their statement, the European Football Association was not only composed to express its opposition to this measure, but also to blame this at the foot of FIFA, whose rules said “unclear and detailed enough” to dispense with rejection. UEFA said she wants to work with FIFA to create new rules to reduce the league games that played abroad – and assumes in a way that will not conflict with the relevant sport, the sports promotional company that has obtained its anti -friction bid to drop its laws. FIFA released from the lawsuit without bias, which means that it can be reopened at any time if things are not satisfied with the promotion company.
“Although it is unfortunate that you have to allow these two matches to move forward, this decision is exceptional and is not seen as a precedent,” said UEFA president čeferin. It is difficult to see how this can be true. This is not how the precedents work.
The gates are open. The toothpaste was pressed from the tube. The basis for professional football, organized in the first place as a series of local circles, is cracked. Any game can now be played anywhere, wherever the highest is bidding. Once the Spanish league – or any league – is no longer something that can only be played on the homeland, there is no return.
We were in a long march that is not softening this place for decades. The forces that carried this sport were partially supported by American money and methods. We must be honest about it.
The Spanish league president, Javier Thibbas, spent more than seven years working to put a match in the Barsha League in Miami in an attempt to keep up with the Premier League-which is the monetary colos that was created through the American model to achieve sport liquidation. He and others have done this because all football believes that the United States is the ATM without a pin number, as it attracts one competition after another. In this effort, Tebas was incited by the American promoter.
The clubs will now be free to chase after revenue anywhere you can find. People may try to object on their way because of the best interests of sports – or players or fans, “but they stand a little opportunity to stop anything in reality with a lot of money at stake.
Villarreal will play 18 home matches this season, with every 19 team La Liga team. Her fans will get a lower match in their city, Although it will be compensated With free flight offers to Miami. The Barça and Villarreal players – not to mention Milan and Komo – will largely traveled for their local competitor more than their competitors this season. The influence of this storm in the season of the Barnat on the title races, landing and promotion is inevitable.
A large number of people were clear about the repercussions in the direction of the river. Real Madrid-participants in the superior European League, sports authors Galaxy His era, which started the financial armament race – seemed to be the sound of the unlikely mind here.
“The integrity of the competition requires all matches in the same conditions for all teams,” the Spanish club wrote in a statement. “The amendment of this system unilaterally breaks the equality between the competitors, establishes the legitimacy of the results and places an unacceptable precedent that opens the door to exceptions based on the interests of non -mathematical in strictly.
Spanish professional football players Association He was also opposed. As it was the European football supporters group. This was how čeferin, who said before the announcement of Monday In an interview: “Football should play in Europe, and fans should be able to watch it at home. They cannot travel to Australia or the United States to see their teams.”
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The European Union Commissioner for Sports, Glenn Michalif, has argued that “the strong clubs based on society are the heart of the European sports model. The transfer of competitions abroad is not innovation, it is betrayal.”
Oh well, however. In the end, UEFA did not make this decision alone. Make the championships. FIFA agreed to change its policies when it was rejected from the relevant lawsuit. The professional football ranks have been made for a long time, when they started playing the local Super Cup competitions in distant places, in China and in the Gulf and the United States.
Everyone you want to blame, European football is now completely American, and chose unrestricted capitalism, which there are no borders or traditions. And now, something is essential.
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Lender Schaerlaeckens’ book on the National Men’s Football Team, The Long Game, in the spring of 2026. You can Preormer it here. He studies at the University of Marest.