• Conflict LaLiga plants FIFA: it will support the clubs that do not give up their players to the South American teams

New legal conflict in sight in Spanish football. And now they go ... In this case, those who take the initiative, under the protection of

LaLiga

, are the clubs with South American footballers who have been called up for the national team stoppage that begins on Monday.

Conmebol's

decision

, endorsed by

FIFA

, to extend the international period by two days implies that these players cannot play the fourth day of LaLiga (from September 10 to 12) with their clubs, which has led "unanimously" to those affected to "initiate

precautionary measures before the

competent

judicial body

in order to protect the rights and interests of the competition and the affected clubs," as reported by the employer on Thursday.

This scenario is a consequence of the total stoppage of football that occurred during the first months of the pandemic and that caused several windows of national team matches to be suspended, which all confederations have subsequently recovered. UEFA decided to include three matches instead of two in several windows, without extending the number of days legally fixed, which are ten. Conmebol, however, asked FIFA to

extend the international periods of September and October to 12 days

, appealing to the intercontinental trips of many of its summoned, I pray that the highest body of world football decided to support.

With this revamped calendar, the South American teams will play their third and last game of this break at dawn (Spanish time) from Thursday 9 to Friday 10, while the LaLiga matchday starts that same Friday with a Levante-Rayo. In other words, those who play that international match will not be able to do so on the weekend with their clubs, at least those who have to play on Friday and Saturday. Real Madrid, as this newspaper reported, showed its discomfort over this situation. The start of the group stage of the

Champions League

the following week means that the Spanish competition lacks room for maneuver to delay those matches and thus adapt to the modification approved by FIFA.

The affected clubs (13 in First and Second, with 25 players in total) therefore understand that this situation "affects in a flagrant way the calendar and the integrity of the LaLiga competition", which is why they have also agreed to "communicate to their players summoned by Conmebol teams the

impossibility of moving

with their respective teams, waiting for the current situation and problem to be clarified, "now judicialized and waiting for a quick resolution, as the international break starts this Monday.

A position shared by the

Serie A

and Premier League clubs, which have also announced that they will not give up their players. In the case of the English, the mandatory quarantines that several of the footballers should undergo upon returning to the United Kingdom also fuel their refusal, at the expense of Boris Johnson being able to authorize an exception for these players.

FIFA, for its part, supports the modification of the calendar that it approved and has threatened to sanction the clubs that do not allow the citation of their South American internationals.

The regulations of the highest body of world football do not include what type of sanction the teams that adopt this position could suffer, although FIFA could veto the participation of these players during the five days after the break, which would affect LaLiga's own day and also to the one immediately after the Champions League.

Lawyers consulted by this newspaper, however, do not see a path to that possibility and consider that LaLiga and its clubs have the upper hand in this conflict, given that the decision of FIFA and Conmebol represents an

un-agreed alteration of the calendar.

which was agreed in advance.

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