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MANCHESTER CITY recorded a Premier League record 902 passes in their 1-0 win over Chelsea at the weekend.
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Going from La Liga President plans to play games abroad LA LIGA President Javier Tebas has said that he remains determined to play at least one La Liga game abroad a season. Tebas reportedly believes that playing ‘one or two at most’ Spanish top flight games abroad every season will improve the league’s global popularity. The Premier League had a similar plan 10 years ago, but the idea of a ‘39th game’ played outside England was met with fierce opposition from fans. Despite this, Tebas remains
enthusiastic about the idea of playing one or two games a year outside of Spain and remains determined to become the first country to do so. Speaking at the Web Sport Congress, the 55-year-old said: “It’s a difficult and complicated issue because there are many things that need to be ironed out. “But we want to be the first league that plays an official game outside its usual territory. “We’re not talking about playing all 380 games per season abroad; it will be one per season or two at most. We are now trying to get clubs to agree to the decision.” La Liga’s formidable toptwo, Real Madrid and Barcelona, were involved in the first ‘Clasico’ played on foreign soil last year, as they played a friendly in front of a full 65,000 seater Hard Rock Stadium in
Miami, Florida in July. May’s El Clasico has now been scheduled for May 6 at 8.45pm to reportedly appeal to the American Market but La Liga’s Head of Global Communications, Joris Evers, expects neither team to be involved in an official game outside of Spain in the future. He told Reuters at the end of last year: “It is unlikely for it to be a ‘Clasico,’ as one of the key priorities is to expand awareness and present La Liga as much broader than Real Madrid and Barcelona. “They are the biggest clubs and brands within La Liga and we want to take advantage of the ‘Clasico’ to present the broader league, to talk to people about more stories and more clubs. “That’s how we want to grow the story of our competition and the spectacle of entertainment we have each weekend.”
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The pain in Spain Sprinter disqualified after ‘winning title’ SPRINTER Oscar Husillos suffered a moment to forget at the World Indoor Championships after he suffered disqualification in the final. The Spaniard celebrated wildly after seeming to secure his maiden indoor 400m gold medal in Birmingham, and setting a new European indoor record of 44.92 seconds in the process. But his celebrations were cut short as he was later told during a television interview that he, alongside Dominican sprinter Luguelin Santos, had both been disqualified due to lane infringements, meaning Pavel Maslak from the Czech Republic took home the title for the third time. They joined a long list of athletes to suffer disqualification due to lane infringements over the
UPSET: Husillos celebrated wildly when he thought he had won the 400m World title.
course of the three-day competition, leaving experts scathing and claiming that the issue needs to be addressed. In commentary for the BBC, three-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson said: “This needs to be looked at.”
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