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Should summons income for the Club World Cup beryllium a concern? (1:55)
Gab & Juls sermon wherefore FIFA are struggling to merchantability tickets for immoderate Club World Cup games successful the United States. (1:55)
Adriana Garcia
Jun 10, 2025, 10:41 AM ET
LaLiga president Javier Tebas reiterated successful an interrogation Monday that helium considers the upcoming FIFA Club World Cup "completely absurd."
The tourney that volition instrumentality spot from June 14 to July 13 successful the United States, volition person a caller format with 32 teams playing successful the competition.
"It is wholly absurd," Tebas told Cadena Cope radio. "It's not conscionable astir the carnal deterioration and teardrop connected the players, which is obvious, but the Club World Cup exemplary affects the full ecosystem of nationalist leagues, particularly successful Europe."
Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid are the lone 2 Spanish teams that volition diagnostic astatine the Club World Cup.
However, if the 2 teams scope the last rounds of the competition, with the quarterfinals scheduled to beryllium played connected July 4-5, it volition person a antagonistic effect connected LaLiga, according to Tebas.
LaLiga starts connected Aug. 16-17.
"There is already contention implicit erstwhile Real Madrid and Atlético volition commencement LaLiga, which disrupts our accustomed shot docket and hurts america successful the mean term," Tebas said.
"The determination connected whether Real Madrid and Atlético volition commencement [LaLiga] aboriginal [in bid to rest] is not excavation alone. It volition beryllium made successful owed people erstwhile we spot wherever they stand. But it can't beryllium that we support having to perpetually alteration our docket for different competitions that we are not successful favour of.
"They haven't consulted america astir dates, they haven't consulted america astir anything. What they're doing is damaging Spanish competition, if large teams similar Real Madrid oregon Atlético can't play connected the archetypal time of LaLiga."
Tebas has been critical of FIFA for not consulting the leagues connected the determination to signifier a Club World Cup each 4th summer, conscionable arsenic the governing assemblage did not consult them connected moving the 2022 World Cup to the wintertime oregon expanding the men's World Cup to 48 teams from 2026.
