★≡ THE 5-RING CIRCUS ≡● France ● Just a couple of months after the close of the 2024 Olympic Games, the French budget challenges are already hitting the sports sector. ● Football ● Speaking at a club forum in Brussels (BEL), Javier Tebas, the President of Spain’s LaLiga, asked for the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup to be shelved:“FIFA president, you know that you have not sold the audiovisual rights for the budget you said for that Club World Cup. You know that you do not have the sponsorships for that Club World Cup as you had budgeted. “You know that the leagues and the players’ football unions we don’t want that Club World Cup. Withdraw that Club World Cup now.”LaLiga has joined with other domestic leagues and the FIFPRO players union to file an opposition to FIFA’s match calendar and the 2025 Club World Cup, saying that the schedule is too crowded, that players do not have the proper rest time between matches, or after each season to recover.

Source: Forbes October 17, 2024 12:36 UTC