It was intended that the master team Barcelona would meet Villarreal in Miami on December 20, but the plans have met strong criticism and La Liga is now making a complete turnaround. Instead, the match will be played, as planned according to the original schedule, on Villarreal's home ground.
La Liga writes that they "deeply regret this project, which would have constituted a historic and outstanding opportunity for an international expansion of Spanish football, which will now not be pursued".
The project has been heavily criticized by both players and some clubs. Real Madrid's star goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois recently said that it was unfair to the other teams to place a match abroad.
Teams should play at home and away. It's not the same thing to meet a team at home as to meet it away. Villarreal away is a tough match, said the Belgian according to the news agency AP.
