For the first time this season, the Spanish football Liga will hold a match outside Europe, specifically in the United States. As more details emerge, it seems that Girona-Barça will be the game chosen to be played on the other side of the Atlantic. As both teams are from Catalonia, however, that means the topic of politics is not far away.
Political symbols will be banned, the Spanish anthem will be played and there will be thousands of Spanish flags. That's the plan as explained by the program El Partidazo on the radio station COPE. The ban on political symbology would likely prevent fans from waving estelada, pro-independence Catalan flags (see the picture above, taken at Barça's Camp Nou). They say that the US and Spanish anthems will be played before the match and that there is an idea to hand out 40,000 Spanish flags to spectators.
These are the first details to emerge, but little seems certain yet. According to El Larguero on SER, the Spanish Football Federation, headed by Luis Rubiales, plans to put the brakes on the idea of a US match. The program says that the foundation still has to authorise the proposed change.