As an American Real Madrid fan, it’s a dream to go and watch my team play But as a person with common sense, this is a terrible idea

@yurensohn

12 күн бұрын

If its your dream you should 1 day go to Madrid u know. I for example love basketball and would like to see Golden State games but I would never expect them to come to me across the Globe. Maybe one day I will visit America and go watch a game. Thats how it should be.

nobody is going to watch las palmas vs granada.

@hubex_yt

12 күн бұрын

Exactly no fans no tickets no money for la liga or club

@francisxavierderyzunuo1427

2 күн бұрын

Watch the Americans storm the stadiums with NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and all other sport uniforms (jerseys) to watch that fixture

Why? I know. Greed. Taking away a home match from fans in Spain of the club that would do it. It’s just as dumb as playing their super cup in in Saudi Arabia.

I don't know if this was the point of the segment, but it felt like a First Take debate, which I personally loathe. It's a SPANISH DOMESTIC league. It doesn't have to have games in the US.The whole point is to have the games played IN Spain. How could American commentators even be in favor of this after what happened to the Coyotes in hockey? Stop putting the lifeblood of the product, the fans, last.

What about the home fans😂😅

That’s just disrespectful to home fans

What a disgrace that they are even thinking about doing this.

Give it 5-10 years, uefa champions league games will be played in America as well. From the club and fan/player side. It’s totally unfair and ridiculous

Unless Barcelona or Real Madrid are involved, people won’t go to those games. The rest of the La Liga clubs don’t have the branding or marketing like the Premier league clubs do. People wont want to go to Orlando to see Cadiz - Granada

@user-md1eb2xd2v

12 күн бұрын

Who told you that?

@Kyleterp1

12 күн бұрын

@@user-md1eb2xd2v it’s pretty obvious.

@David-dg9vu

12 күн бұрын

@@user-md1eb2xd2v he's right

@l.r.c9364

12 күн бұрын

I wouldnt wan to watch palace vs. Wolves either

@Kyleterp1

12 күн бұрын

@@l.r.c9364 most people wouldn’t, but palace has a bigger fan base here than getafe or Cadiz. But they shouldn’t be regular season matches here. I’d be on board with the community shield being here. Within the next 5-10 years, the champions league final will be here

To further Herc's point on our leagues going abroad, the NFL, for example, is fundamentally different than LA Liga in that respect because you're not just showcasing a league, but a sport itself. Do the Jaguars really step on anyone's toes locally by playing in London? No, because (respectfully) the London Warriors probably need them more than vice versa. Here, on top of all of his points, you're grossly handicapping local sides (especially minor league ones). Upstate SC doesn't need more Alaves fans. It needs more Triumph and Liberty fans. Charleston doesn't need more Almeria fans. It needs more Battery fans.

Football has lost its way the fans have been completely shafted in every regard

Now they’ll see how us Americans feel about MLB and NFL games abroad. This weekend the Astros and Rockies are playing in Mexico.. Games abroad for any sports league should be pre-season exhibition only. No regular season games.

@Vienna107

13 күн бұрын

Only option I would see as possible would be if the number of games per season was an odd number. Like with the NFL having each team play 17 games now. You could have 8 home, 8 away and 1 abroad.

@Nicholas-HTX

13 күн бұрын

@@Vienna107 that’s reasonable. I just don’t agree with taking home games away from fans. I understand there is a large amount of MLB games compared to NFL and it seems as if they could spare a series or two abroad, but I just feel it shouldn’t be regular season games. The Astros are struggling right now and have only had a handful of days off. They have a day off today for travel from Chicago to Mexico, and will play there over the weekend.

@Vienna107

13 күн бұрын

​@@Nicholas-HTXYeah, you would think there has to be a better way than to use regular season games to grow the game abroad. I mean for baseball, that's what the World Baseball Classic is for.

The sporting leagues don't care about the fans they care about profit. This is why the NFL and NBA are playing games in Europe every year, it's a bad move but this is price of globalism.

Btw this is just as dumb when NFL, MLB, & NBA hold international games in the regular season. Make it for a preseason or a friendly. Don’t waste it on a regular season or a cup match.

God forbid if they ever tried thàt in England

One game a year isn’t going to kill anything or anyone

What a ridiculous idea.

This thing wouldn't even survive for one season 😂😂

As an American soccer fan, i am very much against this. 100% w herc. Also, pretty embarrassed that we have to fly in better games cause we can’t provide a compelling enough league here for those fans to watch

don't they play nba games in europe?

@Kyleterp1

12 күн бұрын

On a random midweek day in January or February. It doesn’t get the coverage or attention like the nfl European games do

Just the sort of crazy, greedy cash grab you'd expect from Tebas

I’m fine with a Copa del Rey final or something like that, sure, but league games make no sense

If this was the Premier League the fans would protest and that would be the end of the discussion, like when they were proposing the Super League. I don't know if Spanish fans would stand up to the bs. It's in their power to put and end to it, but it seems like they don't care one way or another.

Cost wise for fans who wants to travel from Spain to USA, not practical and not even the best idea.

This will be big for la liga as we in the US love football! Doesnt have to be league games maybe cups and other competitions that would be outside the norm is good! Regardless still excited !

This is so messed up.

Would the big clubs go to the US and play as the “home” team?

Laliga in USA is great.

Horrible idea. Bad for Home fans of La Liga. Also for La Liga fans in the US, they don't deserve a real match in their city. They should go to Spain to follow their teams.

I hate that the NFL is doing it and I would hate it, if European leagues would start doing it.

I’m a Real Madrid fan in the USA but I rather wait for my turn to go and experience a game in Spain!!! NO GOOD

@robertnegron9706

12 күн бұрын

🤔

Great idea. Only a pond plane trip away.

I find this to be fine. My mom’s side of the family is mainly from Spain and is the reason I watch laliga. And in America our sports teams travel abroad for a week or two to give other fans that aren’t lucky to see games,games it’s a nice jester tbh.

This is just like NBA games being played in Europe.. and nobody spoke about greed then

Lmao I guarantee there’s no Getafe fans in the states

Seb is so far off the mark here it's actually impressive. If La Liga were to introduce a 39th game - the PL had this type of idea previously - where that would be a "neutral" site game in the United States, maybe we can talk. Don't confuse that with me giving a personal endorsement of the idea, but that idea would at least mean that no La Liga side ends up losing a home game because of this. (Because, as Herc points out, it's not gonna be Real Madrid or Barcelona losing a home game to facilitate this.) That at least involves some kind of fairness. Seb just saying "who cares about Getafe fans?" (or, I presume, fans of any Getafe-sized club in La Liga, so you could use Rayo, Celta, Cádiz, whichever club floats your boat) borders on being appalling. Fans of those teams are no less legitimate than fans of any other club or team in the world. They're actually more impressive in many ways because they don't flock to the Madrid's or Barcelona's of the world, clubs that are very easy to support if you want to. (I'm not a Madrid supporter but, on the topic of Madrid vs. Barcelona, give me Madrid every single time. I do assume a lot of Spaniards who support other clubs have their own opinion on that topic, but that's pure speculation.) No, taking away other team's home games, the atmosphere for those games, the economic impacts locally felt whenever Barcelona or Real Madrid come to town, that's atrocious, I can't believe Seb is ok with that. All for selfish media interests. Dude, you're just wrong about this, plain and simple.

El Clásico en San Francisco, LA or Miami 😍😍

Hilarious. Every so often when a La Liga team beats a non-La Liga team in the UCL they take to the comments sections and proclaim that is exhibit "A" of evidence that La Liga is a superior league and the bias of the media of the other leagues. And yet in reality, La Liga is desperate to expand into the US market b/c they know their product pales in comparison to the EPL is way off the mark. EPL dominates both in quality, strength of the teams, world viewership and media financial deals. More people in the US watch the EPL than MLS. La Liga wants to try and get in on that b/c they know they have an poor product at best. La Liga...who cares.

Idiotic except for the owners, who are all that matter to the league execs. It's not good at all for the players and the fans. Poor Sebe, clueless as usual.

Dude on the left is an absolute merchant banker.

I love it. Been A Real Madrid fan my whole life, but I’m still an independent young man and I can’t afford a trip to Europe. And forget MLS, it’s still growing but as of right now I was never interested in it anyway.

@tejassurve5499

13 күн бұрын

The cost of the tickets for such a game will be almost equivalent to what you would need if you flew to Spain and then watched the game. As ridiculous as it might sound, big clubs like Real Madrid will want to recover all the cost of a sold out stadium, food and beverage sales and merchandise sales which is lost because of the home match sold to the US. So Real Madrid themselves will ask for all that money which will be recovered from the audience coming to watch the games. Beyond that the organizing company and stadium will also try to make some profit so that cost will also be added in tickets as well as food. Also just the appeal of a club like real madrid means the third party agents will purchase the tickets before hand and the black market price of the tickets will be beyond the imagination of fans like you. Say if you are a fan of a smaller team. It won't have that many fans. The games might pull crowds for the first few games but that too will wear off and all we will see will be empty stadiums which don't make sense for organizers, the club or the host stadiums. So realistically as a fan of a La Liga team, this makes no sense for you.

@antobannister93

12 күн бұрын

'mate, have you ever seen the ticket prices for Real Madrid pre-season games held in the USA? You might actually be better off booking a roundtrip to Madrid and going to the Bernabéu than trying to get tickets to a game here. (I see the other response to this comment actually made the same point; I didn't read before writing that.) Those pre-season Clásicos are four digit costs, minimum. Believe me, the value for your buck isn't going any further here, and it'll be even worse for an actual La Liga-sanctioned game because that'll be factored into the ticket price mark-up that's bound to happen as well.

@antobannister93

12 күн бұрын

@@tejassurve5499 Only one thing - Real Madrid isn't going to be the ones sacrificing a home game. They'll never play fewer than 19 games at the Bernabéu in a La Liga campaign, not unless they reduce the league to 18 teams or something. The lost stadium revenue is coming from whichever poor opponent gets handpicked to lose their home game against Real Madrid and have to play their "home" game against an entirely pro-Madrid crowd. (You can plug in Barcelona each time I said Real Madrid if you want, no difference in their case.) You can only hope that the revenue distribution would allow for some kind of allowance for the opponent to get an equivalent revenue that they would've otherwise had, but somehow I doubt it.

@Kyleterp1

12 күн бұрын

You’re better off going to Europe mate and catching a Real Madrid game there. Depending on where you live at, you probably would spend almost a similar amount of money going to Madrid and watching a game at the bernabeu than going to whatever city Real Madrid would play say Barca, Sevilla, etc. Watching Madrid here won’t have that same feel or impact as it will in Madrid. It’ll be too corporatized and won’t get that authentic feeling. I recommend looking at said date that isn’t a fifa international break in the future , save up money(, save little by little if you have to) it’ll be worth it once you do

I hope La Liga fans don't fall for the trap and blame regular Americans for this, when this was an idea that originated in La Liga / UEFA boardrooms. Seb is just playing a character because his only talent is being a TV court jester Devils Advocate type MLB/NFL/NBA fans are dealing with this problem as well in the opposite direction. NFL season ticket holders are missing a home game and having to wake up on 8am to watch their team in Berlin

Lol does Sebas know that American fans can travel to Spain ?

@Kyleterp1

12 күн бұрын

It can pretty costly and things are expensive right now here, especially with as short of a notice that they announce the times of matches over in Europe. The costs/expenses would be about equal if you were to actually fly to Barcelona or Madrid to catch a game over there compared to going to said American city and watch in say Miami, meadowlands, Dallas, etc

But like why though ? Guess it's $ related 😂

We are in 2024 get with it or stay behind… what a brilliant idea. 100 times better than the dumb super league.

@futbol1318

12 күн бұрын

It is very unfair to the fans in Spain. What are you talking about? If you think it is a brilliant idea then you dont know anything.

It's a terrible idea!

This is so stupid

Toxic af

Never gonna happen

Love it. Forces MLS to srsly up their game. Every big league in Europe will be playing league matches here cuz this is where the money is.

@a-walpatches6460

13 күн бұрын

Utter rubbish!

@Kyleterp1

12 күн бұрын

They need to do more than to make it Messi League Soccer. Once Messi goes at end of 2025, in time for World Cup. they’ll need another big star for eyeballs

No it’s a bad move

Professional millionaire players complaining is the funniest thing

@Kyleterp1

12 күн бұрын

The amount of games they’re playing has increased by a lot and only a 3 week summer break really isn’t a lot of time to fully recover for another 11 month grind. There are many factors. To why, tv companies/fifa/confederations keep expanding competitions for more money. Managers systems/ training demands are more demanding on human body than ever. , amount of games by fifa, uefa, etc. managers refusing to rotate and not using all 5 subs. Players not owning up and saying they need a break. Players could retire from international footy. There’s no clear cut solution but the tv money is how the players really earn their salaries. Unless the players will take a pay cut and will play less games, they’ll play victim and not provide solutions

Bad idea. Getafe vs Barcelona in the USA means that fans are just going there to see Barcelona. Not fair to the Getafe fans. Preseason friendlies are good enough for US soccer fans. Also promoting La Liga games, live on the major networks (NBC, Fox, etc) will be great.

Horrible idea. Bad for Home fans of La Liga. Also for La Liga fans in the US, they don't deserve a real match in their city. They should go to Spain to follow their teams.

@robertnegron9706

12 күн бұрын

Not everyone can afford to travel to Spain. Since Biden took over people in the USA are swamped with inflation.