On September 11, 2018, The league announced the Girona-Barça corresponding to matchday 21 of the 2018-19 season will be played USA. Specifically to Hard Rock Stadium in Miami. The clubs followed the idea of The league and even some organizations such as Aficiones Unidas and the Spanish Sports Association took part in this initiative, which was initially opposed by the AFE and especially the RFEF.
But this could change after FIFA announced that it will create a commission to study changing the regulations that currently govern this situation.
In October of last year we already said that this scenario was reopened after five years with the departure of Luis Rubiales and the arrival of Pedro Rocha in the Managing Commission at that time and since last April 26 in the presidency of the RFEF.
Spanish federative regulations now say the following about international matches. Of these he recalled in the section of authorizations that “by virtue of the FIFA Regulations, only FIFA, the confederations and the Spanish Football Federation can authorize the dispute of international matches for sporting purposes only, without said authorization that has or “may not have consequences or derivatives for administrative purposes in Spain in the dispute of matches and rules of public entertainment.”
And it is very blunt about League matches: “The RFEF will not in any case allow the dispute of official matches of competitions with a round-trip league type format in other territories that are not Spanish territory , except in the specific case of Andorra for affiliated teams of that territory.”
Until now, FIFA, as stated in point 2 of article 11 of the Regulations for international matches, has made it clear that this type of match must be the RFEF, when the clubs agree, bringing it to attention of UEFA. And here is the key to the whole procedure.
As the regulations make it clear that the Confederation must authorize this request at the latest “21 days after the match in question has been negotiated”. Only once UEFA has authorized this match dispute is when the request must be sent to the affected Confederation. If the match is played in the United States, it must be CONCACAF. And finally everything was informed to FIFA.
But the possible rule change opens the door for it not to rely on the federation in its case with UEFA. That means, at the time authorized by FIFA, all matches governed by the final regulations approved by them can be played.
Source: La Verdad
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