Two of the biggest soccer clubs in the world are coming to San Francisco this summer. And hopefully, this is just the beginning,
When the Sevilla midfielder was a second-half substitute in his club’s 2019 win over Liverpool in an exhibition match at Fenway Park, he was amazed at how a diamond transformed into a pitch.
“It’s gonna be in the beginning of the season, and we’re not gonna be that fine-tuned, so maybe some of our shots won’t be very precise,” Torres, 28, told The Examiner through a translator. La Liga has long eyed fans in North America, and the matches in Mexico and San Francisco are just the latest examples.
Joey Nevin, vice president of the San Francisco Giants’ investment arm partnering with La Liga on the Oracle Park matches, said earlier this month The City is “the ideal location to host matches of this caliber and will once again unite the enthusiastic soccer community within the Bay Area and beyond.
The league in 2018 announced plans to play a regular-season Barcelona-Girona fixture in Miami, shortly after partnering with Relevent Sports. FIFA and UEFA, the global and European soccer governing bodies, opposed the proposal, as did the Spanish Football Association and the players’ union in the country. Barcelona backed out of the match, and U.S. Soccer axed Relevent Sports’ plans to host an Ecuadorian league game in the U.S. in 2019.
Money, however, doesn’t tell the whole story of the leagues’ comparative success. Spanish clubs, including Torres’ Sevilla, have won more European competitions than their English counterparts.
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