5 h. ago La Liga boss says canceled Miami game is a missed opportunity for Spanish soccer; fan group happy

Spanish league president Javier Tebas strongly regrets the cancelation of the regular-season game between Barcelona and Villarreal that was scheduled to be played in the United States in December

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8 h. ago Tebas vows La Liga will try again after plug pulled on Villarreal v Barcelona in Miami

La Liga president laments promoters’ decision to cancelTebas criticises Real Madrid and players’ unionJavier Tebas has vowed that La Liga would try again after plans to take a game abroad fell through when promoters announced they were cancelling Villarreal’s meeting with Barcelona in Miami on 20 December.The league had been informed of the decision on Tuesday, with an announcement made at half-time of Villarreal’s Champions League game against Manchester City at the Estadio de la Cerámica, where they will face Barcelona, instead of at the Hard Rock Stadium. The timing of the announcement was described as “a complete lack of respect” by the Villarreal coach, Marcelino García Toral. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Javier Tebas: LaLiga has ‘lost opportunity to advance’ by cancelling Miami game

The plan for the league match in December had come in for heavy criticism and was shelved on Tuesday.

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23 h. ago LaLiga cancels controversial game abroad after protests and fierce criticism

Barcelona and Villarreal were due to play a league match in Miami in December but the plan faced huge opposition

Events

26 h. ago Thibaut Courtois launches scathing attack on LaLiga over plan to host games abroad

The Belgian also hit out at LaLiga’s ‘censorship and manipulation’ over the refusal to broadcast various on-field protests made by players

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32 h. ago Dani Carvajal: Playing matches overseas strips LaLiga of fairness

Barcelona are set to face Villarreal in Miami in December, pending final approval from FIFA.

Politics

9 d. ago Trump calls climate science a ‘con job’. That could make tackling the crisis a whole lot easier | Francesco Grillo

Europe and Brazil have a rare opportunity, unimpeded by the US, to make a success of Cop30 – and reshape the world orderThe climate crisis, Donald Trump told the UN last month, is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world”. With these words the US president rejected the international scientific consensus and evidence that we can all check daily with a basic thermometer. He has also announced he is withdrawing the US from the Paris climate agreement, signed in 2015 by 195 UN countries. The US joins an axis of deniers including Yemen, Iran and Libya, countries that signed the agreement but never ratified it.Paradoxically, Trump’s reversal provides an opportunity for others to advance the climate agenda: to sketch out the blueprint of a possible new world order without the US, even if Washington was the architect of the old one.Francesco Grillo is a visiting fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, and director of the thinktank Vision Continue reading...

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