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LaLiga will study "legal actions" for FIFA's "unilateral decisions" with the Club World Cup

MADRID, 17 Dic.

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LaLiga will study "legal actions" for FIFA's "unilateral decisions" with the Club World Cup

MADRID, 17 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

LaLiga has announced that it will study "legal measures" to "prevent" FIFA from holding the Club World Cup under its new format, ensuring that these decisions have been established "unilaterally and without notice", for which reason they "injure irreversible to the entire football ecosystem".

"Given these decisions made and announced without consulting or agreeing with the parties directly affected by them, such as the national leagues, the clubs that form them and the players, LaLiga hereby announces that it will study the pertinent legal actions to prevent it from being held. the Club World Cup with the announced format," he said in his statement.

On Friday, FIFA president Gianni Infantino assured that the Club World Cup would be played every four years with 32 participating teams starting in 2025, stressing that details, including the host country and dates, still had to be discussed and decided. There was also talk of revising the World Cup format in 2026 to include many more games with groups of four teams instead of three.

"These decisions made unilaterally and without notice about the calendar with new international tournaments irreversibly damage the entire football ecosystem," LaLiga said. "FIFA only thinks of a small group of clubs and players, when in professional football there are many professional leagues, thousands of clubs and players who do not play these international competitions. FIFA seems to forget and only think of a few without knowing the real effect on all the players in professional football", he continues.

In this sense, the body led by Javier Tebas assures that with these measures FIFA "distances itself from the objective of protecting the interests of the football industry", where "an environment of balance between national and international football for the benefit of football in general".

"From LaLiga it is considered absolutely inappropriate for FIFA to decide, without any kind of consultation and agreement with the Leagues, on the dates of the 2022 Club World Cup, which will be played from February 1 to 11, 2023, less than two months from the dispute over it, with the consequent damage to the national calendars that have been set since June 2022," he concludes.

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