LaLiga had planned to stage a Barcelona match in Miami in December

LaLiga’s hopes of staging a match between Villarreal and Barcelona in Miami in December have suffered another setback with Fifa opting against ruling on the request at its forthcoming council meeting next month.

Sources with knowledge of Fifa’s deliberations have told City AM that it has no plans to formally discuss the controversial issue of playing league games abroad until a position has been taken by Uefa, which deferred its own decision on the matter at a meeting of its executive committee in Tirana earlier this month.

The Fifa Council is due to meet in Zurich on 2 October, when LaLiga had been hopeful of gaining approval to move the Villarreal-Barcelona game to the US, in what would be the first competitive lea

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