The future is Milan-Juve in London and Real-Barcelona in Rome: FIFA is working on exporting the championships

A working group has officially been launched: La Liga has already made it known that it is ready for 2025

ROMA – Milan-Juventus in London. Or the Clasico, Real Madrid-Barcelona, maybe in Rome. But also – who knows – an unmissable Lecce-Frosinone in Lyon. Fifa wants to eradicate national championships, export them abroad, reshuffle the boundaries of European football. A path officially started with the announcement of the creation of a specific working group, called to outline the contours of this revolution is epochal in its own way. The Council, which is being held in these days in Bangkok. La Liga has already made it known that it hopes to have championship matches scheduled abroad by 2025.

The working group will be made up of 10 to 15 people with all-round experience in football, including clubs, leagues and fan associations. It will be independent but its work will have to take into account a series of principles: fairness, the adequacy of notice to fans who may miss the opportunity to attend a match on their territory, etc., etc.

In reality, the pressure for an international opening of national football is not a thing of today. The Premier League was forced to abandon plans for a “39th match” more than a decade ago in the face of strong opposition from FIFA itself. Other leagues are more interested in tapping into international interest, and the top clubs are eager to maximize profits by taking advantage of as-yet unmarketed showcases.

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