Barcelona players began Saturday's home match against Girona with a 15-second pause after kick-off in protest against LaLiga's decision to hold their regular-season match against Villarreal in Miami.

Barça were due to play away at Villarreal on Dec. 20, but the league has relocated the fixture to the Hard Rock Stadium on the same date, with tickets due to go on sale next week.

The Spanish Footballers' Association [AFE] announced Friday that a protest would be carried out by players this weekend aimed at the league's "lack of transparency, dialogue and coherence" in staging the Miami game.

The AFE didn't say what the protest would be, but on Friday, in the first LaLiga game of the weekend -- Real Oviedo vs. Espanyol -- the two teams paused for the first 15 seconds .

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