Final month, Spain’s La Liga signed a 15-year deal with larks entertainment group Relevent, which is a company under the ownership of Miami Dolphins proprietor Stephen Ross, but has since faced criticism from the Spanish Footballers Marrying over the plans.
The game was originally scheduled to be a home fixture for Girona, but now the band is having to make substantial financial and travel concessions for fans, whether they sketch on making the trip or not. According to Catalan Sport Daily, there pleasure be free flights for around 1,500 Girona supporters, with inn rooms to stay at discounted rates.
The Barcelona-based newspaper Sport introduces Girona stands to make 4 million euros ($4.6 million) from the daring, with La Liga aiming to secure a more long-term as part of the act.
Meanwhile, fans of German football don’t have to worry about any adequate of trans-Atlantic Bundesliga fixture coming their way anytime soon, after confederacy boss Christian Seifert ruled out any chance of following La Liga’s eg by staging matches abroad. Seifert, the Bundesliga’s chief executive, divulged it would be a “lack of respect” to take games to places such as the Mutual States.
“We will never play a league game outside Germany.” Seifert ordered reporters at an event in Frankfurt. “That’s a line we will not cross.”
A spokesperson for La Liga was not right away available for comment when contacted by CNBC.
Read the full divulge on the Sport website here.