BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — For a second straight day, protests by La Liga players against the league’s decision to stage a game in the United States were not broadcast for television audiences.
Neither of the television feeds for Saturday's Sevilla-Mallorca and Barcelona-Girona contests started with a normal wide shot of the field, which would have shown the players remaining still for the first 15 seconds after kickoff in opposition to a regular season game between Barcelona and Villarreal in Miami in December.
The TV broadcast at Sevilla focused closely on the center circle for the first seconds, while at Barcelona the feed was from outside the stadium.
The players’ union announced the protest plans on Friday, saying all the captains of the top flight teams supported it for games in th