"Real Madrid coach Xabi Alonso backed player protests over LaLiga playing a regular-season game in Miami on Saturday, describing the move as "positive." Barcelona's game at Villarreal is set to be played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida on Dec. 20, with tickets due to go on sale next week. On Friday, in the first LaLiga game of the weekend -- Real Oviedo vs. Espanyol -- the two teams paused for the first 15 seconds."
""We're against the [Miami] game, because we believe it influences the competition," Alonso said in a news conference on Saturday. "There isn't unanimity among all the participating clubs [in the league]. We haven't been consulted. "The protests are positive, because it's the feeling of many clubs. [The Miami game] has been done unilaterally, and that's what we're against. If there's unanimity, it can happen, but that isn't the case.""
Xabi Alonso backed player protests opposing LaLiga's decision to stage a regular-season game in Miami, calling the protests positive and citing lack of consultation and unilateral decision-making. Barcelona's fixture at Villarreal is scheduled for Dec. 20 at Hard Rock Stadium, with tickets due next week. In the opening weekend game Real Oviedo vs. Espanyol, both teams paused for 15 seconds as part of a protest AFE described as targeting the league's 'lack of transparency, dialogue and coherence.' The global television feed did not show that protest. AFE said captains of the 20 top-flight teams supported a weekend-start protest, though Barcelona and Villarreal players had not been asked to take part. Alonso declined to predict further player actions.
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