La Liga to play regular season game in the USA - MLS Impact?

The Spain Super Copa (or what ever that start of season champion vs champion game is called) was played in Morocco this year.

I am surprised that more of those games (in some countries a single game) are not played in the USA, the Middle east or China more often.

It would seem like the perfect type of game to be played outside Europe.


Fvck, maybe in the future UEFA will allow cities outside Europe to bid to host the Champions League final or at least the UEFA final.

 

Eibar has a what 8K stadium (maybe 12K).

So Eibar hosting Barcelona in the Miami Dolphins stadium could make them a lot of money.

But, their regular fans would be pissed as fvck since that is a premium game in their home schedule, also it would be greed since they would be guaranteed a pro Barcelona crowd, so basically a home game for Barca (or Real M).

Now, maybe hosting Sevilla or Villarreal, perhaps even Atletico could work.

 

You joke, but Chicago is the where USSF is based.

So maybe there is something to your theory.

 

Impact of a one off game in Miami?

Zero. Zip. Nada. Zilch.

Because...while I'm fairly certain the Miami game will involve either Barcelona or Real Madrid, it won't involve both...and that's the only La Liga matchup that currently moves the needle in this country.

 

They could market it to the pro/rel or bust crowd. 3,000 tickets sold isn't too bad.

 

This is a terrible idea. I hope that U.S. Soccer rejects it. Another country has no business playing league games here. The pre-season scrimmages are bad enough already.

 

This is the only La Liga matchup that moves the needle in any country outside of Spain

 

Yeah but we're the country not named Spain La Liga intends to play in...

 

If the game happens in MLS' offseason, I don't see it as a real problem.

 

Everyone forgets about Canada.........

 

FYP

 

beIN are paying $60 million a year at the moment.

 

This would bother me less than MLS playing friendlies against Euro teams during the MLS season.

 

Late Dec, Jan and Feb would be the only option for this, right? If they want to avoid playoffs too.
Not saying it wouldn't work. Just asking.

 

If they time it right between a home and home/local match it's no biggie. I'd like to see some pre-season MLS friendlies in Europe. I watched Nottingham Forest play Seattle in 1981. Forest were European Champions and Seattle were a rubbish NASL team but that was a long time ago. Italy and Spain have winter breaks but the weather is fine in half the country.

 

Who are you and what have you done with the real Paul Berry?

 

Someone must have hacked into my account. Call admin!

 

Why wouldn't it?

This puts money in Garber's pocket. The only limit to how many matches foreign leagues are allowed to play in the U.S. is when it stops being profitable for Garber. Is that incorrect? No, it's correct.

This is not "conspiracy." This is fact.

The facts are that the more international matches the USSF allows in the U.S. the more money the people that run the USSF make. If that's not the case, lay out your facts.

Note, I never said that this is disastrous for U.S. soccer. It may be good for U.S. soccer in small doses. But, to say that there is some motivation by USSF to limit the number of matches like this is just plain wrong.

 

I envision Garber like Scrooge McDuck swimming in his bank vault...is that not accurate.

 

I don't know the details of Garber's contract, but I bet its largely a set rate for his services, not dependent on how much money is made by some organizer somewhere. At best he probably gets some sort of percentage of MLS success but again, La Liga games here wouldn't raise that number. So no, it probably doesn't put money in his pocket.

Do you have, you know, an actual fact saying otherwise?

 

While I don't agree with the poster you are quoting, I do bet he gets percentage based money not just for MLS success (like you suggest) but SUM success also. Now I don't know if these La Liga games will involve SUM or not. Likely not.