The league announced this Saturday that it is considering taking legal action against the FIFA for announcing and approving this past Friday the Club World Cup on February 1 and 11, 2023. Some dates where they denounced that they did not take into account the leagues in their impact on the calendars of the national leagues.
Some actions that, as this newspaper has learned, it plans to take. He ends up studying in detail what happened. Although the Club World Cup That is not included in the international calendar FIFA which has been established for four years, employers want to denounce the harm implied by its announcement with short notice and closed competition calendars. They made it clear in their statement on Saturday: “From LaLiga it is considered completely inappropriate that the FIFA decide, without any kind of consultation and agreement with the Leagues, on the dates of the 2022 Club World Cup, to be held from February 1 to 11, 2023, less than two months after the dispute, with consequential damages to the national calendar set from June 2022″.
For example, in 2019, FIFA announced its dates for this tournament in July, which is usually held in December. In the 2020 edition, which was already held in February 2021, it was announced on November 17, 2020. And this time it was approved in mid-December less than a month and a half after its dispute. And as denounced by the big leagues, without consulting them.
He is awaiting the award of his first appeal before the TAS
This complaint is the second from LaLiga to FIFA for calendar reasons. In August 2021, the world’s highest soccer body decided to change the dates of the September and October selection windows in CONMEBOL. It was extended by two days and the contention for another match to make up for the matches that could not be played in March 2021 due to the COVID pandemic. Proposal that led to LaLiga having to postpone two games in September on the fourth day (Villarreal – Alavés and Sevilla – Barcelona) and two more in October on the ninth day (Real Madrid- Athletic Club de Bilbao and Granada – Atletico) since These teams were affected by this measure because the following Tuesday they had the Champions League. And the players arrived on Friday night, just over 24 hours after their league commitments, which had to be played on Saturday. The RFEF appealed the decision before the CSD and was rejected.
At that time, LaLiga was already considering this proposal as a serious change to the FIFA international calendar with no room for maneuver for clubs obliged to design their national calendars based on the dates that the calendar leaves this by FIFA (currently valid from 2020 to 2024 ) and that set by UEFA for its club competitions.
LaLiga has decided to appeal to CAS this unilateral decision by FIFA to change the calendar, as is now the case with Mundialitos de clubs, thus affecting the international calendar. Both for the object and for the method of its execution. Right now he is waiting to hear the award.
Source: La Verdad
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